Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
By Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Jens Suedekum. Social Science Research Network, 2012
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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.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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- The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences (2016, background): “…of life, for example, occupational choice and self-employment, geographical mobility, ownership of risky assets, as well as smoking (see, e.g., Bonin et al. 2007, Caliendo et al. 2009, Jaeger et al. 2010, Dohmen et al. 2011, Barasinska et al. 2012, Bauernschuster et al. 2014, Fouarge et al. 2014).”
- Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake (2018, unknown): “On one hand, regarding residential sorting, Jaeger et al. (2010) and Bauernschuster et al. (2014) show that individuals who are more willing to take risks are more likely to migrate.”