Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?

Autor/inn/en	Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Suedekum, Jens
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Warum sind gebildete und risikofreudige Personen regional mobiler?
Quelle	Berlin (2012), 28 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 522
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Bildungsniveau; Mobilitätsbarriere; Mobilitätsbereitschaft; Kulturelle Identität; Risikobereitschaft; Deutsch; Sprachbarriere; Binnenwanderung; Arbeitsmobilität; Regionale Herkunft; Regionaler Faktor; Deutsches Kaiserreich
Abstract	Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances across German regions constructed from historical local dialect patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more willing to cross cultural boundaries and move to regions that are culturally different from their homes. Other types of distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/2