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作者

Fernando Merino;Maria A. Prats

来源

CITIES,Vol.97,Issue1,Article 102506

语言

英文

关键字

Population dynamism;Depopulation;Local economy;Societal infrastructures;Comunidad Valenciana

作者单位

Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain;Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain

摘要

The aim of this paper is to analyse at what extent purely economic factors and features linked to the life quality promoted by local governments are important to attract or keep population at a local level. Specifically, we pay attention to the evolution of the population as well as in the number of newcomers (local immigrants) from elsewhere. An econometric model was estimated where the dependent variable captures the increase of inhabitants along 2012–2016 of the 543 municipalities of the Comunidad Valenciana (Spain). The results point out to the fact that population increases in those municipalities where the economic situation seems to be better (higher weight of manufacturing & agriculture, higher income) being non significative the public societal infrastructure.