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THE 1970S MIGRATION TURNAROUND IN JAPAN REVISITED: A SHIFT‐SHARE APPROACH
Author(s) -
Ishikawa Yoshitaka
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1992.tb01840.x
Subject(s) - population growth , inflow , demographic economics , economic geography , population , geography , business , development economics , demography , economics , sociology , meteorology
Like many developed countries, Japan showed a drastic reduction in net population inflow to the core regions in the 1970s. This paper examines the contribution of a changing supply of highly mobile young adults, as well as employment growth, to this trend. Shift‐share analysis of the change in migration patterns reveals that the main cause was a greatly reduced rate of out‐migration from the peripheral regions by young adults.