Emoting with their feet: Bohemian attraction to creative milieu

By Timothy R. Wojan, Dayton M. Lambert, D. McGranahan. 2007

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Creative class theory posits that creative people are attracted to places most conducive to creative activity. The association of the share of employment in the arts with various indicators of economic dynamism provides plausible support for this conjecture. We explicitly test this conjecture by modeling the 1990 share of employment in the arts at the county level, and then use the residual from this regression to explain differences in various measures of economic dynamism between 1990 and 2000. Our results support the hypothesis that an unobserved creative milieu that attracts artists increases local economic dynamism.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Unrewarded careers in the creative class: The strange case of bohemian graduates (2010, background): “Other contributions, such as Wojan et al. (2007), Rauch and Negrey (2006) and Donegan et al. (2008), also show that the creative class measure of human capital performs very similarly to the traditional educational attainment measure (in fact sometimes better, but sometimes even worse).”
Do Creative Industries Cluster? Mapping Creative Local Production Systems in Italy and Spain (2008, result): “Although limited in some degree (Glaeser, 2005), these studies are valuable, if nothing else because of the lively debate they promoted over the opposite positions for judgments over their approach (Hansen et al., 2005; Wojan et al., 2007).”
Smart cities: implications of urban planning for human resource development (2011, background): “Several studies have shown that artistic/cultural and technology/innovation communities that constitute a cultural economy are best able to attract talent and in turn boost urban growth (Stolarick and Florida 2006 ; Wojan, Lambert, and McGranahan 2007 ).”