TY - JOUR
T1 - Unequally ageing regions of Europe
T2 - Exploring the role of urbanization
AU - Kashnitsky, Ilya
AU - de Beer, Joop
AU - van Wissen, Leo
PY - 2020/7/23
Y1 - 2020/7/23
N2 - Since young adults tend to move from rural to urban regions, whereas older adults move from urban to rural regions, we may expect to see increasing differences in population ageing across urban and rural regions. This paper examines whether trends in population ageing across urban and rural NUTS-2 regions of the EU-27 have diverged over the period 2003–13. We use the methodological approach of convergence analysis, quite recently brought to demography from the field of economic research. Unlike classical beta and sigma approaches to convergence, we focus not on any single summary statistic of convergence, but rather analyse the whole cumulative distribution of regions. Such an approach helps to identify which specific group of regions is responsible for the major changes. Our results suggest that, despite expectations, there was no divergence in age structures between urban and rural regions; rather, divergence happened within each of the groups of regions.
AB - Since young adults tend to move from rural to urban regions, whereas older adults move from urban to rural regions, we may expect to see increasing differences in population ageing across urban and rural regions. This paper examines whether trends in population ageing across urban and rural NUTS-2 regions of the EU-27 have diverged over the period 2003–13. We use the methodological approach of convergence analysis, quite recently brought to demography from the field of economic research. Unlike classical beta and sigma approaches to convergence, we focus not on any single summary statistic of convergence, but rather analyse the whole cumulative distribution of regions. Such an approach helps to identify which specific group of regions is responsible for the major changes. Our results suggest that, despite expectations, there was no divergence in age structures between urban and rural regions; rather, divergence happened within each of the groups of regions.
KW - convergence in ageing
KW - NEUJOBS urban–rural classification
KW - NUTS-2
KW - population ageing
KW - regional cohesion
KW - urbanization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088539418&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00324728.2020.1788130
DO - 10.1080/00324728.2020.1788130
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088539418
JO - Population studies-A journal of demography
JF - Population studies-A journal of demography
SN - 0032-4728
ER -