Individual social capital and migration

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This paper determines how individual, relative to community, social capital affects individual migration decisions. We make use of nonpublic data from the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey to predict multidimensional social capital for observations in the Current Population Survey. We find evidence that individuals are much less likely to have moved to a community with average social capital levels lower than their own and that higher levels of community social capital act as positive pull-factor amenities. The importance of that amenity differs across urban/rural locations. We also confirm that higher individual social capital is a negative predictor of migration.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2018-3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics ; Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Classification Methods; Cluster Analysis; Principal Components; Factor Models
• Subject: social capital ; migration ; Current Population Survey ; amenities ; nonpublic data ; factor analysis

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hotchkiss, Julie L. ; Rupasingha, Anil
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• (where): Atlanta, GA
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.29338/wp2018-3
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/200525
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET