- Authors
- Anna Kremer Technische Universität Dresden
- title
- Home is where the heart is? How regional identity hinders internal migration in Germany
- Please use the following URL when quoting:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-721720
- Series
- CEPIE Working Paper
- multivolume_volume0
- 05/20
- issn
- 2510-1196
- Abstract (EN)
- People are emotional about places. I study the effect of regional identity (“at home”) on internal migration flows in Germany between 1995 and 2017. Regional identity is proxied by measuring how NUTS3 regions were historically affiliated in the former patchwork of Germany. When controlling for the influence of distance, culture (measured by dialects) and regional characteristics, I confirm that regional identity drives migration patterns additionally. Employing the separation effect by the German wall affirms that not only earlier migration or family bonds determine movements instead of regional identity.
- Keywords (DE)
- Binnenmigration, Regionale Identität, Historische Zugehörigkeit, Heimat, Gravitationsmodell, Deutschland
- Keywords (EN)
- Internal migration, Regional identity, Historical belonging, Gravity model, Germany
- Classification (DDC)
- 330
- Classification (RVK)
- QC 000
- university_publisher
- Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-721720
- Qucosa date of publication
- 18.09.2020
- Document type
- research_paper
- Document language
- English
- licence