Spatial Analysis Of Foreign Migration In Poland In 2012 Using Geographically Weighted Regression

• Authors: Karolina Lewandowska-Gwarda
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Migration has a principal influence on countries’ population changes. Thus, the issues connected with the causes, effects and directions of people’s movements are a common topic of political and academic discussions. The aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial distribution of officially registered foreign migration in Poland in 2012. GIS tools are implemented for data visualization and statistical analysis. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) is used to estimate the impact of unemployment, wages and other socioeconomic variables on the foreign emigration and immigration measure. GWR provides spatially varying estimates of model parameters that can be presented on a map, giving a useful graphical representation of spatially varying relationships.

Keywords

EN

emigration,immigration; spatial analysis; GIS; GWR

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 137-154

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2014-12-30

Contributors

author

Karolina Lewandowska-Gwarda

• Ph.D., University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Spatial Econometrics

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/cer-2014-0037