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Population decline in Lithuania : who lives in declining regions and who leaves?
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than … in Lithuania. The main focus is on understanding who lives in those regions which are rapidly losing population, and who … regions. This paper provides empirical evidence of selective migration and increasing regional disparities in Lithuania. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528102
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Economic situation of Eastern Poland and population migration movement
Pietrzak, Michał Bernard; Wilk, Justyna; Chrzanowska, … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to examine population migration flows in relation to the eastern Poland and its economic situation. The empirical study refers to the period 2008-2010. In the first part of the paper, the economic situations of 66 Polish sub-regions were examined. The study used the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997073
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Forecasting internal migration in Russia using Google Trends : Evidence from Moscow and Saint Petersburg
Fantazzini, Dean; Pushchelenko, Julia; Mironenkov, Alexey; … - 2021
This paper examines the suitability of Google Trends data for the modelling and forecasting of interregional migration in Russia. Monthly migration data, search volume data, and macro variables are used with a set of univariate and multivariate models to study the migration data of the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322801
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Migration and Environment
Millock, Katrin - 2015
The concept of environmental migrants occurs frequently in the policy debate, in particular with regard to climate change and its incidence on low-income countries. This paper reviews the economic studies of environmentally-induced migration. It includes the recent empirical analyses that try to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023947
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Mobility where mobility is illegal : internal migration and city growth in the Soviet Union
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1997 - Revised
This paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess the effectiveness of these controls. We analyze a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576391
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Mobility Where Mobility is Illegal : Internal Migration and City Growth in the Soviet Union
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999
This paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess the effectiveness of these controls. We analyze a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200410
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The Economic Determinants of Internal Migration Flows in Russia During Transition
Brown, Annette N. - 2015
I analyze the patterns of migration by testing the influence of traditional economic and amenity factors and of housing market reform on the direction of migration flows. I improve on the few previous studies of Russian migration during transition by analyzing gross flows rather than net flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067671
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071318
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 2021
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319258
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Gravity model as the tool for internal migration analysis in Poland in 2004-2010
Pietrzak, Michał Bernard; Wilk, Justyna; Matusik, … - 2013
Population migration is a long-lasting process affected by many factors. The analysis of its effects is a typical research approach to its interpretation. The object of the paper is to investigate migration phenomenon by means of gravity model application. It helps to explain variations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997087