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Presentation at a DFG workshop on labor market impacts of the Corona pandemic

Presentation at a DFG workshop on labor market impacts of the Corona pandemic

© L. Knüpling und R. Sternberg, 2022

On 14 February Rolf Sternberg and Louis Knüpling from the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography (IWKG) gave a presentation as part of a one-day workshop they organized together with project partners from the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), as well as two working groups from another research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). First, Rolf Sternberg presented theoretical considerations on how digitalization and the resulting opportunities for working-from-home could change people's places of residence and work in the future, and what opportunities this would offer for rural areas in particular. Louis Knüpling then presented first empirical findings that point to a migration of certain age groups from dense to more rural areas. In the first year of the Corona pandemic (2020), a clear strengthening of the trend can be seen. The hypotheses put forward will be tested empirically in more detail in the following.