Bright Flight From Silicon Valley
Talented people are starting to move to places where the cost of living is more reasonable, but a town can't just be cheap and wonderful. It also has to be connected.
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Burgh Diaspora
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Silicon Rust
Silicon Shore. Silicon Beach. Silicon Roundabout. How many different technology hubs can we have? Like the untethering of manufacturing from regional natural resources that crushed the Rust Belt, Silicon Valley's one-time advantage of a high concentration of venture capitalists matters less and less as the cost of technology falls.
Happy H-1B Visa Day
Is the Big Tech lobbying effort for immigration reform just a ruse to keep wages low?
Los Angeles Is Beginning to Look a Lot Like Pittsburgh
Concerns about population growth and decline are artifacts of the 19th century and the industrial revolution. For them to make any sense today, we need to look at the numbers in a much different way.
The International Trade of Talent
Just because a net migration number is negative doesn't mean there is brain drain. A shrinking population doesn't always indicate a dying place.
The STEM Talent Shortage Debate
Do today's high school students prefer to take the AP Art History exam over AP Biology?
Talent Is the New Oil: OPEC of Tech
Silicon Valley and Chesapeake Energy face the same problem: the cost of extraction. The technology industry needs to get smarter about workforce development, and fast.
Ironic Gentrification and the Migration of Globalization
Higher education and health care, two major elements of the new Legacy Economy, are attracting global talent and gentrifying the neighborhoods that surround them, pricing out residents who toil in the local or regional labor market.
How Talent Migration Facilitates the Diffusion of Globalization
Openness to immigration behaves in the same way as openness to trade.