Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

John Winters

No 6723, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college graduates who stay in the college town where they obtained their degree and college graduates who leave after completing their degree. We find that college town stayers experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages and work in less educated occupations.

Keywords: college towns; migration; human capital; education; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J24 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2012-07
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Published - published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:11

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