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Aalborg Universitet The Migration of Technical Workers
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dahl Sorenson, Olav |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Using panel data on the Danish population, we estimated the revealed preferences of scientists and engineers for the places in which they choose to work. Our results indicate that these technical workers exhibit substantial sensitivity to differences in wages but that they have even stronger preferences for living close to family and friends. The magnitude of these preferences, moreover, suggests that the greater geographic mobility of scientists and engineers, relative to the population as a whole, stems from more pronounced variation across regions in the wages that they can expect. These results remain robust to estimation on a sample of individuals who must select new places of work for reasons unrelated to their preferences—those who had been employed at establishments that discontinued operations. Crown Copyright 2009 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://vbn.aau.dk/files/73825645/Dahl_Sorenson_2010_JUE.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
