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Destination choice of the 1995 - 2000 immigrants to Japan: salient features and multivariate explanation.
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Environment & Planning A . Apr2008, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p806-830. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to identify the salient features of the destination choices made by new immigrants who entered Japan in the 1995-2000 period, and to provide a multivariate explanation for their choice behaviors. The salient features can be summarized as follows; first, destination-choice patterns differed markedly by ethnicity; second, the higher the educational qualification of the immigrants, the greater the attraction of the Tokyo prefecture and the less dispersed the destination-choice pattern; and third, among female immigrants, those with the household status of daughter in law were more prone to go to the Tohoku region, where the maintenance of the traditional stem-family system was a serious concern. Our multivariate analysis has revealed that the destination choices made by the new immigrants were indeed subject to the selective effects of labor-market conditions, the distributions of coethnics, and the spatial patterns of marital opportunities in theoretically meaningful ways, and that labor-market conditions were most important, whereas marital opportunities were least important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308518X
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31956315
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a39187