Location Choices of the Creative Class: Does Tolerance Make a Difference?

Haisch, Tina; Klöpper, Christof

doi:10.1111/juaf.12148

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“…Möller and Tubadji (2009) also report evidence suggesting that creative workers tend to prefer more prosperous regions in Germany. Haisch and Klöpper (2015) report similar results for richer regions in Switzerland. To identify the parameters γ and α in an instrumental variables approach, some exogenous sources of variations of the regions' creativity and formal education are needed that are unrelated to the outcome.…”

Section: Educational Attainment Versus Creativity: Discriminatory Evisupporting

confidence: 62%

Creativity, education or what? On the measurement of regional human capital

Bode

Villar

2017

Papers in Regional Science

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida's suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida's notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers' cognitive and noncognitive skills. It shows that this microfoundation is similar to that of human capital in recent labor economics, which has facilitated important new insights. It also shows that Florida's measure is too crude to make a difference. Nonetheless, it is time to rethink regional human capital. Occupations may help project workers' cognitive and noncognitive skills from the micro to the regional level. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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Section: Educational Attainment Versus Creativity: Discriminatory Evisupporting

confidence: 62%

Creativity, education or what? On the measurement of regional human capital

Bode

Villar

2017

Papers in Regional Science

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“…For decades a broad range of literature and discussion explicitly points at an increasing skills-shortage and the role of skilled human capital in and for the EU (e.g., Mohr, 1997;Faggian and McCann, 2009;Growe, 2009;Haisch and Klöpper, 2014;David, 2015). In this context two sides of the coin are addressed: on the one hand the need for skilled or even highly-skilled and highlyspecialized employees and on the other hand the groups of people whose potential still is unlocked or untapped and who therefore are often confronted with disadvantages, leaving less room for self-determination.…”

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Entrepreneurial Education for Persons With Disabilities—A Social Innovation Approach for Inclusive Ecosystems

Kruger

David²

2020

Front. Educ.

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Fostering entrepreneurship and inclusive societies are on top of EU policy agenda. This article is bringing together both aims by discussing a social innovation framework for inclusive entrepreneurial education for persons with disabilities. Similar to other disadvantaged groups, persons with disabilities can benefit from entrepreneurial skills for self-management or, on a next level, for starting own, opportunity-driven businesses. The framework suggests several building blocks considered necessary for successful entrepreneurial education for the beneficiaries. First, it is approaching the framework through a social innovation perspective. In doing so, it suggests a social innovation ecosystem perspective to operationalize all relevant stakeholders and contextual aspects relevant for the framework. Second, it suggests to build on socially innovative, hence novel, practices by starting from co-creation and co-production in order to meet individual demands and needs of learners. Furthermore, it takes the concept of universal design into account as it holds major implications for inclusive entrepreneurial education for persons with disabilities and underlines the need of different, more suitable practices in entrepreneurship education and beyond, toward an inclusive learning ecosystem.

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“…Instead of heavily investing in infrastructure as suggested by Florida, small regions should improve their connections with metropolitan areas in terms of communication and transportation [24]. Haisch and Klopper [33] further revealed that tolerance, especially towards immigrants and homosexual couples, is a quite dynamic concept, with major differences between and within functional urban areas.…”

Section: Preference Difference: From the Perspective Of Spatial Unitmentioning

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Exploring the Complexity of Location Choices of the Creative Class in Europe: Evidence from the EU Labor Force Survey 1995–2010

2020

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This paper proposes a new idea for the current argument over Florida’s cultural policies, as location choices of the creative class is a complex process involving some basic aspects of socio-economic progress. Based on the European Labor Force Survey (EU LFE) dataset, tolerance and openness indicators which represent the quality of a “people climate” are found to be positively correlated with the creative class’s location in large regions and less so in smaller ones, where business climate-related parameters, i.e., the quality of local governments and the location of universities, have stronger positive effects on locational choices of the creative class. Moreover, graduates with non-creative jobs and creative professionals (i.e., workers who provide creative solutions during the work process such as high-tech technicians or legal and healthcare workers) are concerned more about the people climate, while creative workers with a degree and a creative core (e.g., workers who provide original ideas such as scientists, engineers and artists) are more likely to prioritize a business climate. Therefore, we argue that the promotion of a “tolerant” climate, as Florida advocates, is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, policy makers should appropriately relate different preferences of creative workers to their unique strengths. This provides more insights into defining the concept of creativity beyond prioritized individual success, as well as understanding the preferences and actual needs of highly skilled workers in Europe.

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Location Choices of the Creative Class: Does Tolerance Make a Difference?

Cited by 39 publications

References 27 publications

Creativity, education or what? On the measurement of regional human capital

Creativity, education or what? On the measurement of regional human capital

Entrepreneurial Education for Persons With Disabilities—A Social Innovation Approach for Inclusive Ecosystems

Exploring the Complexity of Location Choices of the Creative Class in Europe: Evidence from the EU Labor Force Survey 1995–2010

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