From 1980 to 2000, the rise in the US college/high school graduate wage gap coincided
with increased geographic sorting as college graduates concentrated in high wage, high …

Immigration has been a steady force acting on population and employment within countries
throughout human history. Focusing on the last four decades, we show that the mix of …

Abstract We review Immigration Economics by George J. Borjas, published in 2014 by
Harvard University Press. The book is written as a graduate-level textbook, and summarizes …

We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to provide causal evidence on the role of location-
specific human capital and skill transferability in shaping the spatial distribution of …

Higher education is back in the spotlight, with post-2015 sustainable development goals
emphasising equality of access. In this paper, we highlight the long distance still to travel to …

ABSTRACT I estimate an elasticity of wages with respect to city population of about 5
percent for Colombian cities. This finding is robust to a number of econometric concerns …

To assess potential public concerns, this paper examines theory and evidence surrounding
graduate educational underemployment (overeducation) in this era of mass higher …

While non-US scholars and academic disciplines other than higher education have given
great consideration to the relationships among universities, cities, and economic …

This paper quantifies the effect of global migration on the welfare of non-migrant OECD
citizens. We develop an integrated, multi-country model that accounts for the interactions …

One of the central explanations of the high failure rates of de novo entrants is the liability of
smallness. As a corollary, most prior literature has suggested that firms should experience …