Uwe Neumann (p), Christoph M. Schmidt

Stefan Rehak

Several authors argue that in industrial societies an undesirable side-effect of current economic growth is increasing residential segregation by skills and prosperity. So far, there is still quite a lot of uncertainty about changes in the composition of residential areas and the underlying sorting mechanisms. A fairly new field of research on neighbourhood sorting has designed methods to analyse the multitude of simultaneous influences on housing location decisions more systematically. Drawing on a discrete choice sorting model based on microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that there was a strong probability of households with mean characteristics to choose residence near to the central areas of cities throughout the study period from 1984 to 2010. While the distribution of the population across broad categories of housing environment remained relatively stable, a moderate shift to the more central urban areas set in during the past decade. At the same time neighbourhood-level segregation by age, income and occupation, particularly between low-density areas and compact housing environments of urban regions, became more pronounced.

Ioannis Psycharis (p), Vassilis Tselios , Panayotis Pantazis

Uwe Neumann

This paper sets out to estimate the migration flows of high school graduates from domicile to the location of Universities in Greece. By utilizing individual data for the period 2007-2012 and by applying spatial interaction modeling approach we examine how geographical, socioeconomic and higher-education characteristics explain the interregional students flows in Greece. Analysis of flows shows that there are two escalator regions Athens and Thessaloniki. Distance is always a detrimental factor for the migration decision, especially during the years of economic crisis. Study subject also is considered as one important factor for migration decision.

Stefan Rehak (p), Martin Alexy , Marek Káčer

Ioannis Psycharis

In this paper, we study gender dimension of the choice of university location. Individual characteristics of the students are important factors determining the choice of the university and related migration for higher education. Previous research on gender dimension of the migration for higher education showed that women are more likely to choose universities proximate to their home regions. However, our preliminary analysis, using data of Slovak students, suggests that female on average study less abroad when compared to male, but they study in other Slovak regions (outside their domicile region) more often than their male counterpart. We use microdata from the Census of inhabitants in 2011. When studying gender effect, we use other control variables grouped in categories of individual characteristics of university students (nationality, family status and age), of family background (education and economic activity), of local socio-economic and geographic characteristics (average salary, distance to the region's capital, share of old population (65+), and border with another country) and field of study. We also found significant interaction between gender and family background.