Human Capital Research in an Era of Big Data: Linking People with Firms, Cities and Regions

Human capital has been an important source of growth for cities and regions and a driver of differences in wage levels, with a large and growing body of literature exploring its sources, growth, migration, and implications. Increasingly, however, the questions are not what the returns to investment in human capital are and where those returns are maximized, but what factors are associated with decisions to invest in human capital. How does …