Geography and Employer Recruiting

Russell Weinstein

No 11224, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: I analyze whether reducing geographic distance to high-wage jobs increases access to those employment opportunities. I collect office locations and campus recruiting strategies for over 70 prestigious banking and consulting firms, from 2000 to 2013. Using an event-study framework, I find firms are 2 times more likely to recruit at local universities after opening a nearby office, and 6 times more likely outside industry clusters. New target campuses outside industry clusters are less academically selective. The results suggest place-based policies may improve access to high-wage firms, and also suggest the importance of a university's local labor market for post-graduation outcomes.

Keywords: returns to college; employer recruiting; local labor markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J23 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2017-12
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Published - updated version published as 'Firm Decisions and Variation Across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (1), 1-46

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