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Geographical aspects of East-West migration in the Czech Republic between 1991–2015

HUBL, Richard

Basic information

Original name

Geographical aspects of East-West migration in the Czech Republic between 1991–2015

Name in Czech

Geografické aspekty migrace Východ-Západ v České republice v období 1991-2015

Authors

HUBL, Richard (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, Facultas Rerum Naturalium, Geographica, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2018, 1212-2157

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50701 Cultural and economic geography

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00115726

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

Czech Republic; internal migration; migration efficiency; young adults; peripheral regions; depopulation

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 12/5/2021 16:09, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Abstract

V originále

Internal migration is a significant demographic and spatial indicator reflecting social and economic changes. Compared to the rest of the country, the eastern part of the Czech Republic (also the East) represents a slightly different area in terms of internal migration patterns. The aim of this paper is to analyse internal migration of the East during the 1991–2015 period, to identify direction and age migratory trends, and to evaluate the internal migration efficiency and its impact on the population of the East. To assess the impact of migration, a typology comparing natural increase with net migration and the index of migration efficiency was used. Because of very effective emigration with the western part of the Czech Republic in 1991–2015, the East steadily changed from population increase to population decline, losing 88.8 thousand inhabitants by internal migration. The observed migratory loss was predominantly composed of young population, especially in the structurally affected Moravian-Silesian Region. The current migration tendencies (after 2015) continue to show the demonstrated trend of the East to West youth brain drain, the consequences of which are likely to lead to further deterioration of the already problematic situation of the East, with the exception of the city of Brno and its hinterland.