Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2014-07-22
Number: 14-093/VIII
Author-Name: Or Levkovich
Author-Name: Jan Rouwendal
Author-Workplace-Name: VU University Amsterdam
Title: Location Choices of highly Educated Foreign Workers: the Importance of Urban Amenities
Abstract: In the globalized economy the presence of migrants is essential for urban and regional growth, and it is therefore important to know what makes a city an attractive place for highly skilled migrants. This paper aims to shed light on this issue by considering the location choice of highly-educated foreign workers, and if and how their valuation of urban amenities differs from domestic workers. To do so, we apply a residential location-choice model to estimate the attractiveness of residential locations in the Dutch Randstad for low and high-skilled, domestic and foreign workers, and calculate and compare their willingness to pay for each of these amenities.
Classification-JEL: F68, R53, R11
Keywords: urban amenities, foreign workers
File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/14093.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20140093