How to woo the smart ones? Evaluating the determinants that particularly attract highly qualified people to cities

Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Rossen, Anja

doi:10.1080/07352166.2017.1282765

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“…However, for highly qualified employees, East German centers seem to reduce the tendency to emigrate from Eastern Germany (Table 3, Model 1a). This complies with findings indicating that East German centers exercise a positive influence on the net immigration of highly skilled people (Buch/Hamann/Niebuhr et al 2014). It can be assumed that economic and structural political measures in the sense of a cluster policy (Porter 2000;Huber 2009) were applied, which (at least partly) might counteract the emigration tendency from East Germany.…”

Section: Determinants Of Geographical Mobility Processes Between Largsupporting

confidence: 88%

Regional Mobility and Spatial Inequality: Determinants of Spatial Labor Market Behavior Considering Firm- and Region-Specific Factors

Ganesch

2018

RuR

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Regional disparities exist between states as well as within countries. In the Federal Republic of Germany, as a result of reunification, there are still considerable regional differences in terms of economic conditions. Local economic and structural circumstances affect individual employment opportunities and can be a motive for migration. Based on rational-economic approaches, the article examines the spatial labor market behavior of full-time employees subject to social security contributions, taking into account individual, firm-specific and regional characteristics. Workplace mobility is analyzed as a job move between the macro regions of North, South and East Germany. For this purpose, a linked employer-employee dataset (LIAB) from the “Institute for Employment Research” is used, supplemented by regional structural indicators (INKAR) at the level of the spatial planning regions. The analyses using binary logistic regression models show that transregional mobility especially depends on individual characteristics such as age and qualifications. Regarding regional features, it can be seen that the emigration tendency of younger employees increases with the local level of unemployment. Overall, the results do not indicate that there is a single-track brain drain from structurally weak regions. Nevertheless, these regions face a problem in age-specific migration patterns. The outflow of young workers weakens structurally poor areas directly and permanently.

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Section: Determinants Of Geographical Mobility Processes Between Largsupporting

confidence: 88%

Regional Mobility and Spatial Inequality: Determinants of Spatial Labor Market Behavior Considering Firm- and Region-Specific Factors

Ganesch

2018

RuR

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“…Quality of life and wellbeing are central to an understanding of careers in cities (Alacovska et al, 2020). The material and technological sphere shapes environmental pollution, cost and availability of housing, commuting time, access to recreation and leisure facilities, which directly affect quality of life, and can influence career decisions (e.g., Buch, et al, 2017).…”

Section: Careers In Citiesmentioning

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Careers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies

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With careers increasingly taking place within and between cities, this article maps the territory for research and theory on careers in cities. Cities present a microcosm for advancing a systemic understanding of people’s careers over time and in relation to broader issues. We acknowledge cities’ multilayered contexts by identifying six spheres—locality and networks, material infrastructure, economic activities, non-work, virtual reconfiguration, and nexus of social change. The interplay between careers and these city spheres informs intertwined phenomena such as well-being, mobility, and migration. To guide further research, our framework distinguishes two meta-theoretical perspectives. An entity perspective examines causal relationships across levels, analyzing how urban characteristics explain career-related phenomena, and vice versa. A constructionist perspective examines how people’s construal of careers in cities draws on cultural repertoires about work, non-work life, and the city, including its social, symbolic, and material aspects. We use the framework to discuss contributions of the five articles of this special issue. A career lens can contribute to our understanding of cities being sources of both stability and change. With cities currently facing significant disruptions, there has never been a more appropriate time for careers researchers to incorporate the city as context.

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“…Results are available under request. ALBERTO BATINTI/LUCA ANDRIANI/ANDREA FILIPPETTI institutions to human capital (Nifo and Vecchione, 2014;Buch et al, 2017;Nifo et al, 2017), and public sector performance (Agovino et al, 2017). We take the period average of the index, which is used to proxy also for the social capital index in 2003, because the longitudinal variability is minimal and to convey synthetic information of the social capital experienced by the province in the period of our sample.…”

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Local Government Fiscal Policy, Social Capital and Electoral Payoff: Evidence across Italian Municipalities

Batinti¹,

Andriani²,

Filippetti³

2019

Kyklos

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Summary Citizens' attitudes and reactions to policymakers' decisions depend on several factors, including informal institutions. The novelty of this paper is to use social capital as a moderator factor to shed light on the relationship between fiscal policies and electoral outcomes. We investigate this relationship using a sample of 6,000 Italian municipalities over the period 2003‐2012 and use a Conditional Logit Matching model comparing incumbents to challengers' characteristics within each election. We find that social capital increases the odds of the re‐election of incumbent mayors who adopted a local fiscal policy more oriented towards capital investment (versus current expenditure) and towards property tax (versus income surcharge). This suggests that social capital encourages governmental functions and public policies improving long‐term economic commitments, institutional transparency, and accountability. It also shows that decentralization works relatively better with social capital.

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How to woo the smart ones? Evaluating the determinants that particularly attract highly qualified people to cities

Cited by 25 publications

References 50 publications

Regional Mobility and Spatial Inequality: Determinants of Spatial Labor Market Behavior Considering Firm- and Region-Specific Factors

Regional Mobility and Spatial Inequality: Determinants of Spatial Labor Market Behavior Considering Firm- and Region-Specific Factors

Careers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies

Local Government Fiscal Policy, Social Capital and Electoral Payoff: Evidence across Italian Municipalities

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