Abstract
It is a common observation in all EU member states that the population of many rural areas is in a continuous and sharp decline, mainly caused by net migration flows from rural to urban areas (European Commission 2008). This results in regional disparities, or rather their intensification, particularly in the case of unequal income opportunities, social environment issues, environmental quality, the availability of infrastructural and social services and recreational and cultural activities. In short, the overall regional quality of life. Against this backdrop it is a key aim of European regional and rural development policy to reduce regional disparities and improve the quality of life in rural regions. Rural development programmes from the most recent period (2007–2013) had the central objective of developing a ‘living countryside’ and helping to maintain and improve the social and economic fabric, particularly in remote rural areas, to counteract depopulation (European Commission 2006).
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Berger, M. and Blomquist, G. (1992), Mobility and Destination in Migration Decisions: The Roles of Earnings, Quality of Life, and Housing Prices. Journal of Housing Economics, 2, 37–59.
Böhnke, P. (2005), First European Quality of Life Survey: Life Satisfaction, Happiness and Sense of Belonging. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
Borjas, G. (1999), Immigration and Welfare Magnets. Journal of Labor Economics, 17, 607–637.
Bruin, J. (2006), Newtest: Command to Compute New Test. UCLA: Statistical Consulting Group. http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ado/analysis, (accessed 07 September 2014)
Cebula, R. J. and Vedder, R. K. (1973), A Note on Migration, Economic Opportunity, and the Quality of Life. Journal of Regional Science, 13, 205–211.
Copus, A. (2015), The New Rural Economy and Macro-Scale Pattern, in A.K. Copus and P. de Lima (eds), Territorial Cohesion in Rural Europe (London: Routledge), 11–34.
Dahlström, M. (1996), Young Women in a Male Periphery — Experiences from the Scandinavian North. Journal of Rural Studies, 12, 259–271.
De Jong, G., Abad, R., Carino, B., Fawcett, J. and Gardner, R. (1983), International and Internal Migration Decision Making: A Value-Expectancy Based Analytical Framework of Intensions to Move from a Rural Philippine Province. International Migration Review, 17, 470–484.
De Jong, G., Chamratrithirong, A. and Tran, Q.-G. (2002), For Better, for Worse: Life Satisfaction Consequences of Migration. International Migration Review, 36, 838–863.
Diener, E. and Suh, E. (1997), Measuring Quality of Life: Economic, Social, and Subjective Indicators. Social Indicators Research, 40, 189–216.
Douglas, S. and Wall, H. J. (2000), Measuring Relative Quality of Life from a Cross-Migration Regression, with an Application to Canadian Provinces. Research in Labour Economics, 19, 191–214.
Dustmann, C. (2003), Children and Return Migration. Journal of Population Economics, 16, 815–830.
Etzo, I. (2008), Internal Migration: A Review of the Literature (Munich: Personal RePEc Archive).
European Commission (2006), The EU Rural Development Policy 2007–2013, Fact Sheet.
European Commission (2008), Leader + Magazine — Special Focus: Leader Achievements: A Diversity of Territorial Experience.
Eurostat (2012), http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu, (accessed 07 September 2014).
Fahey, T., Nolan, B. and Whelan, C. T. (2003), Monitoring Quality of Life in Europe, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
Fahey, T., Whelan, C. T. and Maître, B. (2004), Quality of Life in Europe. First Results of a New Pan-European Survey, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
Froehlich, J. M., Rauber, C. d. C., Carpes, R. H. and Toebe, M. (2011), Selective Exodus, Masculinization and Rural Aging in the Central Region of the RS. Cienc. Rural, 41, 1674–1680.
Gaetano, A. M. and Jacka, T. (2004), On the Move: Woman and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China (New York: Columbia University Press).
Geißler, F., Leopold, T. and Pink, S. (2013), Gender Differences in Residential Mobility: The Case of Leaving Home in East Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch. Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 133, 239–248.
Gibson, J. and McKenzie, D. (2011), The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific. Journal of Development Economics, 95, 18–29.
Greene, W. H. (2008), Econometric Analysis (New York: Prentice Hall).
Greenwood, M. (1997), Internal Migration in Developed Countries, in M. Rosenzweig and O. Stark (eds), Handbook of Population and Family Economics, Ch.12, Vol. 1B (North Holland: Elsevier).
Henning, C. H. C. A., Zarnekow, N. and Kaufmann, P. (2013), Understanding Rural Migration in Industrialized Countries: The Role of Heterogeneity, Amenities and Social Networks. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 40, 95–120.
Kennan, J. and Walker, J. (2011), The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions. Econometrica, 79, 211–251.
Kubis, A. and Schneider, L. (2007), Sag mir, wo die Mädchen sind …: regionale Analyse des Wanderungsverhaltens junger Frauen. Wirtschaft im Wandel, 13, 298–307.
Little, J. and Jones, O. (2000), Masculinity, Gender, and Rural Policy. Rural Sociology, 65, 621–639.
Long, J. S. and Freese, J. (eds)(2006), Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata. 2Second** Edition (College Station: Stata Press).
Lucas, R. E. B. (2007), Migration and Rural Development. Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, 4, 99–122.
Michalek, J. and Zarnekow, N. (2012), Application of the Rural Development Index to Analysis of Rural Regions in Poland and Slovakia. Social Indicators Research, 105, 1–37.
Moseley, M. J. (2003), Rural Development: Principles and Practice London: SAGE Publications.
OECD (2007), Regional Typology. GOV/TDPC/TI(2007)8, (Paris: OECD).
Otrachshenko, V. and Popova, O. (2014), Life Dissatisfaction and the Intention to Migrate: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Socio-Economics, 48, 40–49.
Pedraza, S. (1991), Women and Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender. Annual Review of Sociology, 17, 303–325.
Schneider, L. and Kubis, A. (2010), Are There Gender-Specific Preferences for Location Factors? A Grouped Conditional Logit-Model of Interregional Migration Flows in Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch, 130, 143–168.
Stark, O. and Bloom, D. (1985), The New Economics of Labor Migration. American Economic Review, 75, 173–178.
Stark, O. and Taylor, J. (1991), Migration Incentives, Migration Types: The Role of Relative Deprivation. Economic Journal, 101, 1163–1178.
Stark, O. and Wang, Y. (2000), A Theory of Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation. German Economic Review, 1, 131–143.
Stillwell, J. and Congdon, P. (1991), Migration Modelling: Concepts and Contents, in J. Stillwell and P. Congdon (eds), Migration models: Macro and Micro approaches (New York/London: Belhaven Press).
Shucksmith, M., Cameron, S., Merridew, T. and Pichler, F. (2006), First European Quality of Life Survey: Urban-rural differences. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities).
Tiebout, C. M. (1956), A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures. Journal of Political Economy, 64, 413–424.
Taylor, J. E., Martin, P. L., Gardner, B. L. and Rausser, G. C. (eds) (2001), Human Capital: Migration and Rural Population Change. Handbook of Agricultural Economics (North Holland: Elsevier), 457–511.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2016 Nana Zarnekow and Christian H.C.A. Henning
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Zarnekow, N., Henning, C.H.C.A. (2016). Determinants of Individual Quality of Life Ratings in Rural Versus Suburban Regions — A Gender Perspective. In: Wiest, K. (eds) Women and Migration in Rural Europe. New Geographies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-48304-1_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-48304-1_5
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-58076-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-48304-1
eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)