Determinants of Interregional Migration Flows: The Role of Environmental Factors in the Italian Case*

Bonasia, Mariangela; Napolitano, Oreste

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9957.2012.02300.x

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“…Environmental factors, such as wanting to live in a neighbourhood, city, or region with better services and amenities and/or closer to nature, accounted for one fifth of stated motives and one third if housing is included (Statistics New Zealand, ). According to Morrison and Clark (), the overall pattern of motives among the migrants (on the macro level) is in line with results from similar surveys conducted in the USA, the UK, and Australia and also in accordance with a recent Swedish survey (Niedomysl, ) and trends in Italy (Bonasia & Napolitano, ).…”

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“…Our observation corroborates earlier findings from surveys conducted in the five Nordic countries (Garvill et al ., ; Lundholm et al ., ) suggesting that environmentally related migration motives, and the need to change living environment, appear increasingly more important than do employment‐related motives in interregional migration, even among the total working‐age population. This recalls the ongoing debate as to whether jobs or amenities are the prime drivers of mobility in current society, and whether younger generations rank preferences differently from older more job‐oriented ones (Ferguson et al ., ; Chen & Rosenthal, ; Niedomysl & Hansen, ; Scott, ; Cooke, ; Bonasia & Napolitano, ). In the context of the present paper, these observations also highlight the need to explore the detailed/intrinsic meaning and interpretation of ‘environment’ as motive and concept, and how it relates to the other motives for non‐local migration.…”

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Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in Sweden

Vilhelmson

Thulin

2015

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The need for a change of living environment is an often-expressed motive in surveys of migrantsin addition to better-defined social, educational, and economic reasons. Studies also suggest that environmental motives have become more frequent and influential over time. While ticking the 'change of environment' box of a questionnaire is easy, the underlying concept is highly complex, wide-ranging, and difficult to measure and theorise. This study explores the meaning prospective migrants attach to the environmental motive in relation to experienced and/or anticipated future moves. We go beyond the conventional quantitative approaches of coding and classification, and draw empirically on in-depth interviews with 16 urban young adults living in Sweden. Results indicate that they attach many meanings to the concept: a felt personal need to encounter completely new situations, people, and places; a longing for big city social life and culture; a need to connect more closely to nature and outdoor activities; dissatisfaction with present living settings; and, overall, that recurrent relocation is a perceived social norm. Furthermore, the traditional view in which environmental motives contrast or are subordinated to job-related motives is challenged. The results have implications for the understanding and theorising of migration motives, and for the more comprehensive classification of environmental motives in future research.

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Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in Sweden

Vilhelmson

Thulin

2015

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“…This outcome confirms that the recent intensification of internal migration flows can be associated not only with income and the relative juvenile unemployment rates (ETZO, 2011;PIRAS, 2012), but also with other economic and non-economic variables. For example, the literature stresses the low attractivity of the southern regions for highly skilled workers considering factors such as the level of social mobility (D' ANTONIO and SCARLATO, 2007), the functioning of the labour market (CIRIACI, 2006), and the quality of life (BONASIA and NAPOLITANO, 2012).…”

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Innovation, Socio-institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions

d’Agostino

Scarlato

2013

Regional Studies

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D'AGOSTINO G. and SCARLATO M. Innovation, socio-institutional conditions and economic growth in the Italian regions, Regional Studies. An explanatory investigation is carried out into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions. A three-sector semi-endogenous growth model with negative externalities related to the social and institutional variables affecting the innovative capacity of regional economic systems is constructed. The empirical investigation confirms the presence of non-linearities that depend on the socio-institutional conditions constituting constraints on the translation of innovation into economic growth. The paper suggests that policies targeting the enhancement of local socio-institutional conditions have major repercussions for the innovation capacity and economic growth of the lagging southern regions.Technological change Economic growth Regional disparities Econometric modelling Regional policy D'AGOSTINO G. and SCARLATO M.L'innovation, les conditions socio-institutionnelles et la croissance économique dans les régions italiennes, Regional Studies. On a fait une analyse explicative du rapport entre les facteurs contextuels socio-institutionnels et la croissance économique dans les régions italiennes. On construit un modèle de croissance semi-endogène à trois secteurs avec des externalités négatives relatives aux variables socio-institutionnelles qui influent sur la capacité novatrice des systèmes économiques régionaux. L'analyse empirique confirme la présence des non-linéarités qui nécessitent que les conditions socio-institutionnelles constituent des constraintes sur le passage de l'innovation à la croissance économique. L'article suggère que les politiques visant l'amélioration des conditions socio-institutionnelles locales ont d'importantes répercussions pour la capacité d'innovation et la croissance économique des régions méridionales en perte de vitesse. Mutation technologiqueCroissance économique Disparités régionales Modélisation économétrique Politique régionale D'AGOSTINO G. und SCARLATO M. Innovation, sozio-institutionelle Bedingungen und Wirtschaftswachstum in den italienischen Regionen, Regional Studies. Die Beziehung zwischen gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Kontextfaktoren und dem Wirtschaftswachstum in den italienischen Regionen wird einer erklärenden Untersuchung unterzogen. Wir entwickeln ein auf drei Sektoren beruhendes, semi-endogenes Wachstumsmodell mit negativen Externalitäten in Bezug auf die gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Variablen, die sich auf die Innovationskapazität von regionalen Wirtschaftssystemen auswirken. Bei der empirischen Untersuchung bestätigt sich die Präsenz von Nicht-Linearitäten, die von den sozio-institutionellen Bedingungen abhängen, was die Umsetzung von Innovation in Wirtschaftswachstum behindert. Der Beitrag legt den Schluss nahe, dass Politiken, die auf eine Verbesserung der lokalen sozio-institutionellen Bedingungen abzielen, wichtige Konsequenzen für die Innovat...

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“…A better understanding of the reasons to live, to work or to study in the European Union instead of another region or continent as determinants of the interregional migration flows labels the expanding edges of the amount of social assistance and support the migrants receive in their home and/ or destination country (Bonasia & Napolitano, 2012) is associated in the EU live hood conditions and the member state's self-image (Stern, 2014).…”

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Advancing A Health-Care Cross-Regional Model To Conform Eu Policies And Migration Factors

Olimid¹

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Problem statement: Advancing a Health-Care Cross-Regional Model (HCRM) is aimed at revisiting the programmes and services facing migration and enriching the benefits of the European Union (EU) policies. The HCRM frames of the mixed public-private fixings are handled to recover the system's shortcuts in the field of health-care policies and the input factors of migration.Research Questions: Does a Health-Care Cross-Regional Model (HCRM) provide a feasible and adaptable solution to EU programs surpassing the input factors of migration? What are the effective public health measures centring on the social assistance and offering most opportunities for the migrant population?Purpose of the Study: The study ventures the lack of public acknowledgement and of crossregional scrutiny from the health-care field enabling concurrent engagements to the European and national headsets.Research Methods: Research methods were used as follows: 1) a CRQ (cross-regional questionnaire) assigned to 73 respondents; 2) an interpretative research for the social phenomena of migration; 3) a concept mapping for the HCRM's determinants. Findings: 1) High level of engagement of the HCRM model maximizes the EU's sectorial earnings 2) Interconnecting "win-win" approach to the EU policy offering most opportunities for the migrants 3) CPQ is aimed at showing an overall success of the implemented migrant support measures in terms of the social services outcomes Conclusions: It has been established that a Healthcare Cross-Regional Model (HCRM) will produce a feasible and approximate solution to the migration issues involving social and cultural conveniences and granting national policy-makers to enlist feasible opportunities.

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Determinants of Interregional Migration Flows: The Role of Environmental Factors in the Italian Case*

Cited by 19 publications

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Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in Sweden

Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in Sweden

Innovation, Socio-institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions

Advancing A Health-Care Cross-Regional Model To Conform Eu Policies And Migration Factors

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