Grundschulschließungen als Katalysator von Wanderungsbewegungen?

Walter Hyll and Lutz Schneider

Wirtschaft im Wandel, 2011, vol. 17, issue 6, pages 217-225

Abstract: In rural areas school closures are often linked to a decline in population. Do school closures stimulate enhanced emigration? This paper analyses whether family migration is affected by the existence of primary schools. We conduct an empirical study for the East German province Saxony-Anhalt for the period 1991 to 2008. We find that primary schools significantly affect migration behaviour. After school closure municipalities experience a decrease in in-migration. Unexpectedly, controlling for cohort size, unobserved heterogeneity as well as for neighbourhood effects yields higher out-migration prior to school closure. Because the in-migration and the out-migration are of the same magnitude, in sum school closures have no observable impact on net-migration.

Keywords: demographic change; school closure; migration; rural areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J13 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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