Productive vs. residential economyfactors behind the recovery of rural areas in socioeconomic decline

  1. Peón Pose, David 1
  2. Martínez Filgueira, Xose Manuel 1
  3. López-Iglesias, Edelmiro 2
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

  2. 2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Revista:
Revista galega de economía: Publicación Interdisciplinar da Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais

ISSN: 1132-2799

Ano de publicación: 2020

Título do exemplar: Special Issue: Socio-economic challenges of demographic change

Volume: 29

Número: 2

Páxinas: 111-140

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.15304/RGE.29.2.6744 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Outras publicacións en: Revista galega de economía: Publicación Interdisciplinar da Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais

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Resumo

The analysis and explanation of the diverse rural dynamics might help to design better targeted rural development policies. We focus on Galicia (Spain) as a case study of a region in demographic decline, in order to trace whatfactors are associated with the recovery of specific rural areas. Since demographic ageing and depopulation are often an inheritance from strong migration processes in the past, and the resulting imbalances, we use a statistical method by MartínezFilgueira, Peón & López Iglesias(2017) to remove the demographic drag due to past migration. We then perform a multivariate statistical analysis that explores the relationship ofthe municipalities’ population growth beyond the drag with a total of 50 indicators in 10 domains, includingterritorial,such as infrastructures and remoteness, economic diversification, the profitability of business activities, human capital, and quality of life indicators, such as access to public services and trends of rurbanisation. We obtain mixed results for the dichotomy ‘entrepreneurship versus quality of life’. The main findings are the evidence of agglomeration economies –the distance to the main cities and the size of the county capital–and the positive impact of socio-economic variables such as disposable income and stock of human capital. In addition, we obtain a correspondence between rural areas in recovery and a higher density of companies and self-employment in the services sector.

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This research has received the funding of the Program for the “Consolidation and Structuring of Competitive Research Units - Research Networks (Redes de Investigación)" (Ref. ED341D R2016/014), Proxectos Plan Galego IDT, from the Xunta de Galicia (Spain).

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