Rural areas as winners of COVID-19, digitalization and remote working?
Empirical evidence from recent internal migration in Germany
- verfasst von
- Louis Knuepling, Rolf Sternberg, Anne Otto
- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic crises and increased inter-regional economic disparities. However, the catalyst effect that the pandemic has had on digitalization may change the traditional pattern of internal migration, in favour of rural areas. Using time-sensitive register data we explain changes in net migration rates of German districts from an economic geography perspective. We show that, since the beginning of the pandemic, rural regions benefited more from migration. In particular, younger and highly skilled individuals increasingly move to rural areas. This confirms that rural regions can benefit from increasing remote work, but these effects differ across region types and individual skill levels.
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Institut f眉r Wirtschafts- und Kulturgeographie
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Utrecht University
IAB-Regional Berlin-Brandenburg
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
- Band
- 18
- Seiten
- 227-248
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 22
- ISSN
- 1752-1378
- Publikationsdatum
- 03.2025
- Publikationsstatus
- 痴别谤枚蹿蹿别苍迟濒颈肠丑迟
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaften, Volkswirtschaftslehre und 脰konometrie
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