RT Journal Article
T1 The empirical evidence of digital trends in more disadvantaged European Union regions in terms of income and population density
A1 Garashchuk, Anna
A1 Isla-Castillo, Fernando
A1 Podadera-Rivera, Pablo
K1 Población rural
K1 Dinámica de población
K1 Migración
K1 Economía aplicada
AB Remote rural and postindustrial regions are much morevulnerable to population drain in comparison with indus-trialized centers and capitals, due to obvious reasons suchas meager job opportunities, difficulties in accessing publicservices in education, healthcare and transport, housing,entertainment, lack of integration with other territoriesand, finally, less advanced levels of digitalization. Thisrepresents an open challenge for the European Unionwithin the framework of its Cohesion Policy. This paperanalyzes the impact of digital trends, represented by thepercentage of the population with access to internet andbroadband and the percentage of individuals who buygoods and internet services (percentages provided byEurostat) in less populated EU NUTS2 regions with lowerincome, on the crude population growth rate composed ofnatural changes in population and migratory flows and onthe unemployment rate by applying panel data analysis. Ithas been possible to confirm that digitalization has a pos-itive impact on natural changes in population in EU regionswith lower economic development. On the contrary, theunemployment rate does not affect natural changes inpopulation, but it does have a negative impact on migratory
PB Wiley
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34533
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34533
LA eng
NO Garashchuk, A., Isla-Castillo, F., & Podadera-Rivera, P. (2024). The empirical evidence of digital trends in more disadvantaged European Union regions in terms of income and population density. Journal of Regional Science, 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12729
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga/CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026