Music in the air: Estimating the social return to cultural amenities.

Autor/inn/en	Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan; Otto, Anne
Titel	Music in the air: Estimating the social return to cultural amenities. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Musik liegt in der Luft: Einschätzung des gesellschaftlichen Nutzens kultureller Angebote.
Quelle	In: Journal of cultural economics, 42 (2018) 3, S. 365-391 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2545; 1573-6997
DOI	10.1007/s10824-017-9310-4
Schlagwörter	Beschäftigungsstruktur; Infrastruktur; Kulturpolitik; Musik; Kulturpolitik; Qualifikationsstruktur; Wohnort; Arbeitsplatzwahl; Freizeitangebot; Wohnort; Musik; Einkommenseffekt; Arbeitsplatzwahl; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Freizeitangebot; Infrastruktur; Kulturelles Verhalten; Regionaler Faktor; Standortfaktor; Hoch Qualifizierter
Abstract	"If being around smart people makes us smarter and more productive, what can regions do to attract smart people? This paper considers endogenous cultural amenities as a location factor for high-skilled workers. To overcome selection in the provision of cultural amenities, we exploit variation in contemporaneous cultural amenities that is explained by the path-dependence of historical agglomerations of the cultural activities. To assess spillovers from high-skilled workers attracted by cultural amenities, we use a 1% sample drawn from the population of all West German workers under social security during the period 1975 - 2010. This panel of individual observations allows us to compare wages of similar individuals who work in locations with different levels of high-skilled workers who are attracted by cultural amenities. To account for non-random selection of workers among cities, we use individual-location fixed effects. Our results show that cultural amenities are an important factor in the location decision of high-skilled workers. The positive effect of the local share of high-skilled workers on unskilled, skilled and high-skilled wages indicates strong and productive spillovers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/2