Regional Science Inquiry

Elif Berna VAR

Landscape Architecture Department -Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Burcin YAZGI

Urban and Regional Planning Department – Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
yazgi@itu.edu.tr

Vedia DOKMECI

Urban and Regional Planning Department – Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

This article investigates current age cohort effects on regional migration in Turkey and compares the results with the pattern for the period 1985-1990. The vast amount of migration from the economically backward east and southeast regions to the more developed regions in the west of the country has been continuing for the last half-century. Age cohort analysis of regional migration is given for the periods 1985-1990, 2007-2008 and 2010-2011. Comparison of the results for each period reveals that while migration propensity peaked between the ages of 25-29 for the 1985-1990 period, it peaked between the ages 20-24 during the 2007-2008 and 2010-2011 periods. This could be the result of increasing number of universities which attract younger migrants at the country level. In more recent periods, while the ratio of child migration decreased, the ratios for younger, working age, persons and those in later life increased. Moreover, while the in-migration ratios of the more developed regions increased, those of the less developed regions decreased. Thus, it is expected that inter-regional migration contributes to the transformation of urban structure and the resulting new settlement system will generate a new pattern of growth and interaction among the regions.
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Pródromos PRODROMÍDIS

Centre for Planning and Economic Research, and Athens University of Economics and Business KEPE, Amerikis 11, 10672 Athens, Greece.
Emails: pjprodr@kepe.gr, pjprodr@aueb.gr.
Tel. (+30) 210-3676412. Fax: (+30) 210-3630122 or 3611136.

Abstract
The paper attempts to empirically explain the vote shares received by political parties across municipalities in Greece during the national elections of 2000, in terms of demographic, educational, occupational and other factors under two territorial specifications: one based on the conventional sub-regional organization of the country, the other based on that spatial patterns of the residuals. It finds that by departing from the approach which relies on typical spatial dummies (a) the regression-fit improves considerably, and (b) a good number of spatial effects which might ordinarily be blurred within conventional partitions may be important and, at the very least, their distinct impact ought to be considered. The lesson is probably useful to readers interested in identifying through statistics, health, education, crime or other policy areas.
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Teresa SEQUEIRA

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) Centro de Estudos Transdisciplinares para o Desenvolvimento (CETRAD)
tsequeir@utad.pt

Francisco DINIZ

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) Centro de Estudos Transdisciplinares para o Desenvolvimento (CETRAD)
fdiniz@utad.pt

Abstract
This paper begins with a conceptual approach to the third sector, followed by a review of the relationship between investment and growth.
The empirical component focuses on Portuguese NUT III Douro and Alto Trás-os-Montes regions, which are said to be less developed, and have been the recipients of a significant amount of investment incentives in the context of the European regional development policy. Its aim is to study the impact of these investments on development.
Results reveal there is a higher impact of public investment particularly on infrastructures, compared to productive private investment, and highlight the importance of non-profit private investment on the third sector.
Therefore the support to the third sector stands out as an important driver in development policies, since the impact of public investment did not bring about a dynamics of internationally tradable goods which might help the region become independent of public financial support.
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