Frank Cörvers

Biographic Data

ID5918919
NAMEFrank Cörvers
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMECörvers
SIGNATURECÖRVERS F
AFFILIATIONSMaastricht University
ORCID0000-0003-3099-1725
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS38
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Culture and cross-border commuting

    Open AccessJosé Victor C Giarola, Frank Cörvers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2025References: 14

    Using unique administrative data on historical dialects, we estimate the effect of cultural dissimilarity on cross-border commuting flows from the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium (i.e. Flanders and Brussels) to the Netherlands. The results show that economic drivers, specifically the cost of commuting measured by the geographical distance, remain the most important factor defining the distribution of workers across the national borders of Belgi…

  • Peers’ race in adolescence and voting behavior

    Open AccessMaria Polipciuc, Frank Cörvers et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

    Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the racial diversity index leads to a 2.2 percent increase in the probability of being registered to vote seven years later and to a 2.6 percent higher proba…

  • The role of geographic mobility in reducing education‐job mismatches in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMaud Hensen, Maud M Hensen et al.ARTICLEPapers of the Regional Science…2009Cited by: 17References: 8

  • Delimitation and Coherence of Functional and Administrative Regions

    Frank Cörvers, Maud Hensen et al.ARTICLERegional Studies2008Cited by: 21References: 1

    Cörvers F., Hensen M. and Bongaerts D. Delimitation and coherence of functional and administrative regions, Regional Studies. The paper tests whether functional regions in the Netherlands show more labour market coherence between the municipalities included in them than the Dutch administrative regions. It turns out that regional disparities are not significantly smaller within functional than within administrative regions with respect to income …