대도시 및 중소도시 입지별 혁신도시의 청년인구 유입효과 비교분석

초록

Our study analyses youth population influx following the government’s Innovation City projects for balanced regional development policy. To this end, we constructed panel data from 2007 to 2019 for 119 local governments in non-Seoul Metropolitan Areas and analysed them using a Difference-in-Difference(DID) model. Our main findings are as follows: First, the analysis of the influx of youth population by location types of large cities and small and medium-sized cities confirmed that the influx of youth population due to the development of an Innovation City was not statistically significant in a location type of a large city. However, a location type of a small and medium-sized city showed a statistically significant influx of youth population in the Seoul Metropolitan Area(SMA) and non-Seoul Metropolitan Area(non-SMA). Consequently, the Innovation City projects had a positive effect on the influx of the youth population in a situation where the concentration of the youth population in the SMA is intensifying. In particular, the significance of the study can be found in that the effect in innovation cities located in small and medium-sized cities was statistically significant rather than in large cities.

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