TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
A1  - Uhlendorff, Arne
T1  - Locus of control and internal migration
T2  - Regional science and urban economics
N2  - We model migration across domestic labor markets (internal migration) as the outcome of a job search process in which job seekers form subjective beliefs about the return search effort that are related to their locus of control. Job seekers with an internal locus of control are predicted to search across larger geographic areas and migrate more frequently as a result. We empirically test the relationship between locus of control and the propensity to migrate using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that not only do individuals with an internal locus of control express more willingness to migrate, they do in fact also migrate more often.
KW  - Locus of control
KW  - Internal migration
KW  - Mobility
KW  - Job search
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47908
SN  - 0166-0462
SN  - 1879-2308
VL  - 79
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -