The Well-Being of Cities: Estimating Migration Attractiveness from Internal Migration across Korean Cities

Seung Hoon Lee, Hyoung Chul Kim and Ji Sub Park
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Hyoung Chul Kim: Yonsei University
Ji Sub Park: Bank of Korea

No 2023rwp-213, Working papers from Yonsei University, Yonsei Economics Research Institute

Abstract: We estimate the migration attractiveness of Korean cities by adopting the methodology proposed by Lee et al. (2021) for internal migration setup. Using bilateral migration data across cities, we measure the overall attractiveness of all Korean cities at the ‘sigun-gu’ level. Our approach has two advantages over traditional methods of measuring a city’s attractiveness. First, it is cost-effective as it uses existing administrative data, unlike subjective surveys that require significant resources. Second, our approach provides a more better assessment of a city’s viability than its population growth rate by considering the costs associated with moving between cities and the origin and destination of each migration. Our results confirm the ongoing regional imbalance, commonly known as “Seoul centralization,” and indicate that the migration attractiveness of rural areas such as Jeollanam-do and Gyeongsangbuk-do is even worse than what is revealed by population growth rates.

Keywords: internal migration; welfare estimates; regional imbalance; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 F22 I31 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70pages
Date: 2023-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-des, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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