5/ 👉 Economically driven internal migration serves as a structural factor that can contribute to political polarization.

4/ We also discuss broader political implications:
🔹 As opportunity concentrates, high-opportunity regions accumulate progressive potential.
🔹 Meanwhile, outmigration may deepen grievances in low-opportunity regions.

3/ Our findings are consistent with theories of political assimilation into more progressive contexts of thriving knowledge hubs.

2/ Our key finding:
🖍️ Moving into high-opportunity regions leads to stronger political integration, more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties.

❗ Crucially, relocation itself does not explain these patterns – only moves to opportunity-rich areas do.

1/ We develop a novel multidimensional opportunity index for 401 regions in Germany and merge it with SOEP panel data to study how people respond politically when relocating within the knowledge economy.

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?

🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.

👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?

In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.

tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

Congratulations to Claudia Goldin to this highly deserved honor! An overdue recognition of her influential work on women careers.
Wirtschaftsnobelpreis geht an Claudia Goldin via @faznet

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