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

在这项研究中，我们考察了IT企业企业家的特征和非大都市地区IT工程师的技能水平。这项研究基于对在北海道、东北和九州工作的IT工程师的问卷调查。关于企业家的分析表明，企业家的迁徙历史不同于为建立企业做准备的程度和随后的商业状况。例如，“新来者”创业者往往在得力助手的帮助下，在一个体面的办公场所经营公司。相反，“180度大转弯”的创业者倾向于在住处创业，缺乏可靠的人员。许多IT工程师在进入大学/学院或毕业后立即就业时，就从非大都市地区搬到了大都市地区。他们中的一些人在大都市地区工作了几年后回到了非大都市地区，但很少有人作为一种媒介来转移他们在大都市地区工作的经验所学到的更高的技能。从非大都市地区迁移到大都市地区并获得更高技能的IT工程师往往会留在大都市地区。总之，技能水平选择性迁移的存在可以维持甚至扩大都市圈与非都市圈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.