Employment mobility in high-technology agglomerations: the cases of Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire |
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| Authors: | Helen Lawton Smith Rupert Waters |
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| Affiliation: | School of Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX Email:; Deloitte, Athene Place, London EC4A 3BQ |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines labour market behaviour of the highly skilled in high-tech local economies, taking the UK examples of Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire as case studies. It reports on data from a survey of members of three scientific institutes to compare rates of employee mobility in the two locations and considers the likely explanations and implications of those patterns. |
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| Keywords: | Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire employment mobility postal survey high-tech economies agglomeration economies labour markets |
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