Educational attainment and metropolitan growth

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 325-336

  Gottlieb, Paul D ^a   Fogarty, Michael ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain drain; Employment growth; Higher education; Human capital; Per capita income growth

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN GROWTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345415206     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242403257274     Document Type: Article

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