TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bauernschuster, Stefan
AU  - Falck, Oliver
AU  - Heblich, Stephan
AU  - Suedekum, Jens
        TI  - Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
        PY  - 2012/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6860
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6860
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - human capital
KW  - distance
KW  - culture
KW  - migration
KW  - risk attitudes
        ER  -