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November 18, 2025Population Space and PlaceOpen Access

The Income Returns of Moving for Work: Does Distance Matter?

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EHElias HofmannNSNico StawarzHRHeiko Rüger

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Overview

Analysis shows moving longer distances improves income returns in movers, suggesting distance matters for economic rewards.

Key Points

  • Economic returns from moving for work increase with distance, highlighting its significance.
  • The largest income returns differences occur between moves under and over 200 km, indicating a noticeable threshold.
  • Fixed effects panel regression was employed to analyze the impact of moving across a substantial dataset of 154,236 person-years.
  • Findings suggest that despite lower overall gains, women experience similar distance-related benefits as men when moving for work.

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Hofmann et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924fef4c0ce034ddc351d10https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70145
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