Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107810 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 14-093/VIII
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
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.
Subjects: 
urban amenities
foreign workers
JEL: 
F68
R53
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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