Does crime affect migration flows?. (1st July 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lage de Sousa, Filipe
• Is Part Of: Papers in regional science. Volume 93(2014)Supplement 1
• Page Start: S99
• Page End: S111
• Publication Date: 2013-07-01
• Subjects: R23 -- O15 -- D62 -- Internal migration -- urban externalities -- neighbouring effects; Regional planning -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; Urbanization -- Periodicals; Economic geography -- Periodicals; 307.12
• DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12047
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1056-8190

Abstract

Abstract: The influence of urban externalities on migration flows has not been fully examined in the previous literature. This paper investigates whether a change in dwellings across cities is associated with a specific urban externality, crime rates, using urban‐to‐urban migration data at the municipal level. Gravity equation results show that migration is affected by crime rates, not only locally but also when neighbouring effects are taken into account.