Internal migration of the ‘creative class’ in Germany

Vossen, Daniel; Sternberg, Rolf; Alfken, Christoph

doi:10.1080/00343404.2019.1566699

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“…In fact, a number of studies find that indicators of openness are positively related to the location of high-skilled and creative people (e.g. Florida et al, 2008;Haisch and Klöpper, 2015), albeit its impact tends to be limited (Martin-Brelot et al, 2010;Vossen et al, 2019). In line with this literature, we define socially diverse cities to be diverse with respect to the origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation and general lifestyles of its inhabitants.…”

Section: Choice Of Urban Amenitiesmentioning

confidence: 77%

Do Preferences for Urban Amenities Really Differ by Skill?

2021

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Section: Choice Of Urban Amenitiesmentioning

confidence: 77%

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“…Asheim and Hansen (2009) provided empirical evidence from Sweden to show a need to contextualize, unpack and refine the creative class thesis by incorporating the perspectives of differentiated knowledge bases. A case study on migration of creative class members in Germany partially supports Florida, but revealed that hard (economic) location factors are much more important than tolerance, openness or amenities (Vossen et al, 2019). In the Chinese context, interregional income differentials were found to be more of a determinant in driving skilled migration than regional variation in amenities .…”

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The Interregional Migration of Human Capital: The Case of “First-Class” University Graduates in China

Cui

Wang

2021

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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Human capital has been acknowledged as a key driver for innovation, thereby promoting regional economic development in the knowledge era. University graduates from China’s “first-class” universities—the top 42 universities, included in the “double first-class” initiative, are considered highly educated human capital. Their migration patterns will exert profound impacts on regional development in China, however, little is known about the migration of these elite university graduates and its underlying driving forces. Using data from the 2018 Graduate Employment Reports, this study reveals that the uneven distribution of “first-class” universities and regional differentials largely shaped the migration of graduates from the university to work. Graduates were found aggregating in eastern first-tier cities, even though appealing talent-orientated policies aimed at attracting human capital had been launched in recent years by second-tier cities. Employing negative binomial models, this study investigates how the characteristics of the city of university and destinations affect the intensity of flows of graduates between them. The results showed that both jobs and urban amenities in the university city and destination city exert impacts on the inflow volume of graduates; whereas talent attraction policies introduced by many second-tier cities are found not to exert positive effects on attracting “first-class” university graduates presently. The trend of human capital migration worth a follow-up investigation, particularly given ongoing policy dynamics, and would shed light on the regional development disparities in China.

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“…They contend that there is a clear connection between what they call creative class jobs and individuals with high educational attainment. Vossen, Sternberg, and Alfken (2019) use data and analyze the migratory behavior of the creative class within Germany. On the basis of this study, these researchers make policy recommendations for supporting what they call creative industries in Germany.…”

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Interregional Competition for Mobile Creative Capital with and Without Physical Capital Mobility

Batabyal

Nijkamp

2021

International Regional Science Review

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A lacuna in the extant literature and our desire to contribute to the theoretical literature on how tax/subsidy policies can be used by regions to attract the creative class together provide the motivation for this paper. The paper’s basic contribution is that it is the first to theoretically analyze competition between two regions (1 and 2) for mobile creative capital, the key attribute possessed by the creative class. Both regions produce a final good using creative and physical capital. In the first case, physical capital is immobile and only region 2 uses tax policy to attract the mobile creative capital. We compute the equilibrium returns to creative and physical capital, we specify a key condition for creative capital in the aggregate economy, and we show which of three tax policies gives region 2 the highest income. In the second case, creative and physical capital are mobile and both regions pursue tax policies to attract mobile creative capital. Once again, we compute the equilibrium returns to creative and physical capital and then describe the optimal taxes for the two regions given that they wish to maximize regional income.

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Internal migration of the ‘creative class’ in Germany

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Do Preferences for Urban Amenities Really Differ by Skill?

Do Preferences for Urban Amenities Really Differ by Skill?

The Interregional Migration of Human Capital: The Case of “First-Class” University Graduates in China

Interregional Competition for Mobile Creative Capital with and Without Physical Capital Mobility

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