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Urban environmental quality and out-migration intentions
The Annals of Regional Science ( IF 1.709 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 , DOI: 10.1007/s00168-020-01030-1
Jiří Balcar , Jan Šulák

Many large and industrial cities all around the world suffer from out-migration. It is usually connected with a loss of qualified labour force, suboptimal use of housing and city infrastructure, decrease in investments, etc., resulting in limited development potential. This article investigates the importance of urban environmental quality—especially pollution—for potential out-migration. In addition, it brings two innovative aspects to earlier studies on environmental migration: (a) exploring the influence of subjective perception of pollution, not only its objective level (corresponding to the theory of planned behaviour), (b) examining the different migration strategies instead of one binomial ‘stay or leave’ strategy. A representative sample of 3845 individuals from the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic (the third largest city in the country), which ranks among cities with the most polluted air in the Europe, was used for this purpose. The results suggest that (a) both the quality of natural environment and its subjective perception represent important and highly significant predictors of out-migration intentions, (b) different kinds of pollution lead to different migration strategies, (c) drain of young and educated workers is further strengthened by low quality of the natural environment.



中文翻译:

城市环境质量与移民意图

世界各地的许多大型工业城市都遭受移民的困扰。它通常与合格劳动力的流失,住房和城市基础设施的欠佳使用,投资减少等相关,导致发展潜力有限。本文研究了城市环境质量(尤其是污染)对于潜在外迁的重要性。此外,它为早期的环境迁移研究带来了两个创新方面:(a)探索主观认识的污染影响,不仅是客观水平的影响(对应于计划的行为理论),(b)研究不同的迁移策略而不是一种二项式“停留或离开”策略。来自捷克共和国俄斯特拉发市(该国第三大城市)的3845人的代表性样本,为此,它在欧洲空气污染最严重的城市中排名第一。结果表明:(a)自然环境的质量及其主观感知代表着迁移意图的重要且高度重要的预测因素;(b)不同类型的污染导致了不同的迁移策略;(c)年轻人和受过教育的人的流失低质量的自然环境进一步加强了工人。

更新日期:2020-12-23
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