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| Title: | | Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange  |
| Authors: | | Falck, Oliver Heblich, Stephan Lameli, Alfred Suedekum, Jens |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2961 |
| Abstract: | | We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are taken from a unique linguistic survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in 45,000 schools. Matching this information to 439 current German regions, we construct a dialect similarity matrix. Using a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect similarity. This suggests that cultural identities formed in the past still influence economic exchange today. |
| Subjects: | | dialects language culture internal migration gravity Germany |
| JEL: | | R23 Z10 J61 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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