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Do Colleges and Universities Increase Their Region’s Human Capital?

TO follow up two previous posts regarding job growth and educational attainment.  Succinctly, increasing the educational attainment of a workforce alone will not boost job growth unless there is adequate demand for labor is there.  To reinforce that, the following is the abstract from a 2011 paper authored by Jaison Abel and Richard Deitz (my emphasis): […]