Jobs or amenities? Destination choices of migrant engineers in the USA*

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-63

  Scott, Allen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenities; Engineers; Human capital; Migration; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; INTERNAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MIGRATION; SKILLED LABOR; URBAN GROWTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954353973     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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