Arbeitspapier
The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on historical dialect dissimilarity between German counties. Conditional on geographic distance and pre-migration wage profiles, we find that migrants demand a (indexed with respect to local rents) wage premium of about 1 (1.5) percent for overcoming one standard deviation in cultural dissimilarity. The effect is driven by males, more pronounced for geographically short moves, and persistent over time.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4992
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Exchange and Production Economies
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- Thema
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migration costs
culture
internal migration
psychic cost
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Falck, Oliver
Lameli, Alfred
Ruhose, Jens
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Falck, Oliver
- Lameli, Alfred
- Ruhose, Jens
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2014