Foot Voting in Spain: What Do Internal Migrations Say About Quality of Life in the Spanish Municipalities?

José Navarro-Azorín () and Andrés Artal-Tur ()

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2015, vol. 124, issue 2, 515 pages

Abstract: In this paper we analyse the differences in well-being between Spanish municipalities reflected by people’s migratory decisions. It is assumed that people move for improving their well-being conditions and consequently migratory flows basically reflect perceived differences in the quality of life between potential destinations. Our empirical findings are: first, municipalities in the Mediterranean Axis are perceived as those with the highest quality of life; second, we detect a general process of convergence in quality of life conditions among the Spanish municipalities in the last 15 years; third, estimated levels of quality of life are inversely related to urban size; and, fourth, people perceive nearby destinations as the most attractive places to move to. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Quality of life; Migration; Foot voting; Spain; Municipal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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