TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bound,John
AU  - Groen,Jeffrey
AU  - Kezdi,Gabor
AU  - Turner,Sarah
TI  - Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Use of College-Educated Labor
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8555
PY  - 2001
Y2  - October 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8555
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8555.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John Bound
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: 734/998-7149
Fax: 734/998-7415
E-Mail: jbound@umich.edu

Jeffrey Groen
Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Ave NE
Suite 4945
Washington, DC 20212
Tel: 202-691-7392
E-Mail: Groen.Jeffrey@BLS.gov

Gabor Kezdi
Department of Economics
Central European University
9 Nador St, Budapest, Hungary
E-Mail: kezdig@ceu.hu

Sarah Turner
Department of Economics
University of Virginia
249 Ruffner Hall
Charlottesville, VA  22903-2495
Tel: 434/924-7857
Fax: 434/924-1384
E-Mail: sturner@virginia.edu
AB  - The main question addressed in this analysis is how the production of undergraduate and graduate education at the state level affects the local stock of university-educated workers. The potential mobility of highly skilled workers implies that the number of college students graduating in an area need not affect the number of college graduates living in the area. However, the production of relatively large numbers of college and university graduates in an area may lead to increases in the employment of university-trained manpower if local industries expand production of goods that use college-educated workers intensively. Using data from the U.S., we find a modest link between the production and use of BA degree recipients; states awarding relatively large numbers of BA degrees in each cohort also have somewhat higher concentrations of college-educated workers.
ER  -