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Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764606
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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 98 (2014) C, pp. 56-69
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743947
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Dialects, cultural identity and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
It has long been argued that economic phenomena are affected by culture. However, the causal effect of cultural ties on … exchange, and because it is hard to separate culture from other influences. In this paper, we address these issues by using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575406
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; … - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2011
We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identity: dialect similarity across regions of the same country. We evaluate linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838305
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Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896229
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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956777
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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877921
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266077
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269659
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Südekum, Jens; Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270236