Effect of major disasters on geographical mobility intentions: The case of the Fukushima nuclear accident

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This paper uses panel data from Japan to explore how the Great East Japan Earthquake influenced the intention to leave one's place of residence by comparing the same individuals' responses before and after the earthquake. Controlling for unobserved individual fixed effects and various individual characteristics, we found that (1) people were more willing to leave their place of residence after the disaster when they lived nearer to Fukushima, (2) the effect of the disaster on intention to leave was reinforced when respondents had a small child, and (3) after dividing sample by gender, such tendencies were observed among women but not among men. From the last finding, we conclude that differences between men and women in perceived risk lead to differences in mobility intentions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 903

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Information and Uncertainty: Other
• Subject: geographical mobility ; disaster ; perceived risk

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Yamamura, Eiji ; Tsutsui, Yoshiro ; Yamane, Chisako ; Yamane, Shoko
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Osaka
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127069
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET