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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.73,P.225-239

语言

英文

关键字

R23;Z10;J61;J6;R;R2;Z1;Dialects;Language;Culture;Internal migration;Gravity;Germany

作者单位

Ifo Institute, University of Munich and CESifo, Poschingerstr. 5, D-81679 Munich, Germany"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;University of Stirling, IZA and SERC, Division of Economics, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff3;Research Centre Deutscher Sprachatlas, Hermann-Jacobsohn-Weg 3, D-35032 Marburg, Germany"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff4;Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, IZA, CESifo and Ruhr Graduate School of Economics, Lotharstraße 65, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1;Ifo Institute, University of Munich and CESifo, Poschingerstr. 5, D-81679 Munich, Germany"}]},"aff2":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;University of Stirling, IZA and SERC, Division of Economics, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK"}]},"aff3":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff3;Research Centre Deutscher Sprachatlas, Hermann-Jacobsohn-Weg 3, D-35032 Marburg, Germany"}]},"aff4":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff4;Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, IZA, CESifo and Ruhr Graduate School of Economics, Lotharstraße 65, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany"}]}},"correspondences":{"cor1":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1

摘要

We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identity: dialects. We evaluate linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The recorded geography of dialects comprehensively portrays local cultural similarities that have been evolving for centuries, and provides an ideal opportunity to measure cultural barriers to economic exchange at a fine geographical scale. In a gravity analysis we show that cross-regional migration flows in the period 2000–2006 are positively affected by historical dialect similarity. Using different empirical strategies, we show that this finding indicates highly time-persistent cultural ties that foster economic exchange across regions.