Martin Prosperity Institute Research

by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Peter J. Rentfrow Abstract Research on subjective well-being has focused on cross-national differences, while research on cities and regions has shown that human capital is a key factor in metropolitan income and related outcomes. This investigation tests the hypothesis that human capital will have a significant effect on well-being [...]

by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, Kevin Stolarick and Adrienne Ross Abstract: This research examines the effect of skill in cities on regional wages.  In place of the extant literature’s focus on human capital or knowledge-based or creative occupations, we focus our analysis on actual skills.  We use cluster analysis to identify three broad skill types [...]