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Are College Graduates More Responsive to Distant Labor Market Opportunities?
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Are highly educated workers better at locating in areas with high labor demand? To answer this question, I use three decades of U.S. Census data to estimate a McFadden-style model of residential location choice. I test for education differentials in the likelihood that young workers reside in states experiencing positive labor demand shocks at the time these workers entered the labor market. I find effects of changes in state labor demand on college graduate location choice that are several times greater than for high school graduates. Nevertheless, medium-run wage effects of entry labor market conditions for college graduates equal or exceed those of less-educated workers.
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- Authors
- Wozniak, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Human Resources
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 944-970
- ISSN
- 0022-166X (ISSN-L)
- 1548-8004
- OpenAlex
- W1975011069
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 35.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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