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SUMMARY:Trickle down in cities?  An empirical analysis on the relation bet
 ween the share of higher educated residents and employment growth for lowe
 r-educated in a panel of cities - Dr Roderik Ponds\, University of Groning
 en
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CONTACT:Clare Eaves
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nThis paper analyses the relation between (changes
  in) the share of higher-educated living in cities and the growth of job o
 pportunities for lower-educated people.  Based on the idea of ‘trickle d
 own’\, cities with a higher share of higher educated may perform better 
 in terms of employment growth for lower-educated\, resulting from a higher
  demand for consumer services. Using panel data for Dutch cities\, the emp
 irical results of this study suggest that this has indeed been the case in
  the period between 1999 and 2013. Additional analyses at the level of dif
 ferent consumer related industries suggest that these trickle down effects
  have mainly occurred in leisure services (such as bars and restaurants\, 
 recreational services and cultural services) and to some extent in retail\
 , but not in household-related services. Altogether\, these result suggest
  that ‘skilled’ cities do not only exhibit better economic performance
 s in general but also offer better economic opportunities for inhabitants 
 with no or a low level of education\n\n\nBiography:\n\nRoderik Ponds is a 
 research associate with University of Groningen (department of Economics) 
 and a researcher at "Atlas voor Gemeenten"\, an independent research insti
 tute in the field of urban economics. He holds a Master and PhD from Utrec
 ht University in Economic Geography After obtaining his PhD\, he worked fo
 r the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Roland Berger Strate
 gy Consultants before joining Atlas voor Gemeenten and University of Groni
 ngen.\n
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 4
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