A Study of IT Businesses and the Labor Market in Peripheral Areas: Based on Questionnaire Survey

在本研究中，我们考察了非大都市地区IT企业企业家的特征和IT工程师的技能水平。这项研究是基于对在北海道、东北和九州工作的IT工程师的问卷调查。对企业家的分析表明，企业家的迁移历史区分了创业的准备程度和随后的经营状况。例如，“新来者”企业家也倾向于在一个体面的办公空间里经营公司，并借助右手的东西。“u型掉头”企业家则相反，他们倾向于在自己的住所里创业，缺乏可靠的东西。很多信息技术（IT）工程师在进入大学或大学毕业后立即就业，从非首都地区迁移到首都地区。他们中的一些人在大都市地区工作几年后回到非大都市地区，但很少有人能从大都市地区的工作经验中学到更高的技能。从非大都市地区迁移到大都市地区并获得更高技能的IT工程师倾向于留在大都市地区。简而言之，关于技能水平的选择性迁移的存在可以维持甚至扩大大都市地区与非大都市地区IT工程师技能水平的差异。

In the study, we examine the characteristics of entrepreneurs of IT businesses and the skill level of IT engineers in non-metropolitan regions. The study is based on a questionnaire survey of IT engineers working in Hokkaido, Tohoku, and Kyusyu. The analysis concerning entrepreneurs reveals that migration history of entrepreneurs differentiates the degree of preparation for the establishment of firms and the subsequent business situation. For example, "New comer" entrepreneurs also tend to run the firm in a decent office space with a help of the right-hand stuff "U-turn" entrepreneurs, on the contrary, have the tendency to start up their firm within their residence and to lack dependable stuffs.Many IT engineers move from non-metropolitan regions to metropolitan regions when they enter university/college or when they graduate and are employed right after that. Some of them come back to non-metropolitan region after some years work in metropolitan regions, but few of them act as a vehicle to transfer the higher skill which they would learn from experience of working in metropolitan regions. IT engineers who migrate from non-metropolitan to metropolitan region and have acquired higher skill tend to stay in metropolitan regions. in short, existence of selective migration about the skill level can sustain or even expand the difference in skill level of IT engineer between metropolitan regions and non-metropolitan regions.