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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2010
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 334
Verlag: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Zusammenfassung: 
Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find that membership in locally bounded social networks reduces regional mobility. Secondly, we show that native East Germans are more invested in this type of social networks than West Germans. Thirdly, after controlling for the social network effect the mobility gap between East and West substantially reduces. Thus, low regional labour mobility of East Germans is for a significant part attributable to local ties binding people to their home region.
Schlagwörter: 
Social networks
labour mobility
JEL: 
Z13
R23
J61
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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