Rise (and Decline) of European Migrants in Greece: Exploring Spatial Determinants of Residential Mobility (1988-2017), with Special Focus on Older Ages

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F21%3A00544871" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/21:00544871 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12134-020-00758-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12134-020-00758-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-020-00758-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12134-020-00758-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rise (and Decline) of European Migrants in Greece: Exploring Spatial Determinants of Residential Mobility (1988-2017), with Special Focus on Older Ages

Original language description

Aging, European Union consolidation, and human mobility across countries are three entangled processes making the Mediterranean region of Europe an attractive retirement place thanks to mild climate and lower costs of living. Residential mobility of retired workers in Europe has grown rapidly since the 1980s because of increased wealth, transportation improvements, and flexibility of working lives. However, residential mobility after retirement was occasionally investigated in relation with economic cycles, recession was hypothesized to negatively impact residential mobility from Northern/Western/Central Europe to Mediterranean countries. Considering economic and population dynamics over the last three decades, the present work documents the drastic reduction in the number of European immigrants in Greece after the 2007 recession, with the exception of retirees. Job shortage and worse socioeconomic conditions were demonstrated to alter settlement patterns and location preferences of migrants at both younger and older ages. Results of our study suggest a rethinking of the role of spatial planning and developmental measures in local communities less organized to host increasing flows of retirees from Northern Europe. Being increasingly required to provide services for aging population, social policies should reconcile retirement migration with internal demographic dynamics and the specificity of local contexts, promoting finely tuned taxation systems and appropriate spatial infrastructures.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

50402 - Demography

Project

—

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of International Migration and Integration

ISSN

1488-3473

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

599-613

UT code for WoS article

000563166600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85081242757