Local amenities and life-cycle migration: Do people move for jobs or fun?

By Yong Chen, Stuart S. Rosenthal. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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A World in Emergence: Notes Toward a Resynthesis of Urban-Economic Geography for the 21st Century (2011, background): “A mounting body of empirical evidence can be invoked to support these claims (e.g., Greenwood and Hunt, 1989; Chen and Rosenthal, 2008; Hansen and Niedomysl, 2009; Grant and Kronstal, 2010; Niedomysl and Hansen, 2010; Scott, 2010a), but I must immediately add that there is a countervailing corpus…”
Cities and product variety: evidence from restaurants (2015, background): “…many canonical economics models (e.g. Dixit and Stiglitz, 1977) and more recent work in urban economics suggests that consumption amenities, especially local or nontradable goods, are a significant force driving people to live in cities (Glaeser et al., 2001; Chen and Rosenthal, 2008; Lee, 2010).”
Clusters of Entrepreneurship (2009, unknown): “9 See Carlino and Saiz (2007), Chen and Rosenthal (2008), Gabriel and Rosenthal (2004), Glaeser et al.”
Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities (2007, unknown): “As independent variables we have a measure of local housing costs (based on a quality-adjusted housing price index developed by Chen and Rosenthal (2008)), local wages (which we calculate using wages of single women, i.”
Human capital, higher education institutions, and quality of life (2011, background): “Thus we would expect retirees and other non-workers to be attracted to areas where amenity values are capitalized more into wages than prices (Chen and Rosenthal 2008).”
Internal Migration in Decline (2013, background): “…however, have resulted in an increase in the cost of living in highamenity regions and a decrease in the cost of living in low-amenity regions (Chen and Rosenthal 2008), suggesting that utility differences between places might have begun to be capitalized into labor and housing markets…”
Rethinking Human Capital, Creativity and Urban Growth (2008, background): “…might be observed between the migratory movements of workers and winter temperatures must be for the most part epiphenomenal, except perhaps for the case of retirees and the independently wealthy, most of whom are free from the necessity of holding down a regular job (cf. Chen and Rosenthal, 2008).”
Regional systems of entrepreneurship: the nexus of human capital, knowledge and new firm formation (2013, background): “In the context of human capital, a recent study by Chen and Rosenthal (2008) has found young, highly educated people move for high quality business environments.”
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation (2009, methodology): “ments analyses of business and household location decisions like Chen and Rosenthal (2008), Gabriel and Rosenthal (2004), and Holmes (1998).”
Consumption amenities and city population density (2008, background): “…in valuation between the estimated highest-amenity metro area and the estimated lowestamenity metro area from four leading studies is 31 percent (Bloomquist et al., 1988), 49 percent (Gyourko and Tracy, 1991), 38 percent (Gabriel and Rosenthal, 2004), and 26 percent (Chen and Rosenthal, 2006).”
Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas (2008, background): “9More specificall the relative weight on wages relative to housing costs is 3.61 in Blomquist et al. (1988), 3.7 in Beeson and Eberts (1989), 4.82 in Gyourko and Tracy (1991), 3.72 in Gabriel et al. (2003), 4 in Davis and OrthaloMagne (2007), and 2.87 in Chen and Rosenthal (2008).”