The Effects of Region-oriented Education on Place Attachment and Workplace Selection

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K02107
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: LEE Young-Jun 弘前大学, 人文社会科学部, 教授 (10361007)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 花田 真一 弘前大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (90636458)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 地域志向教育 / 初職地選択行動 / 地域愛着 / 地域間移動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this paper is to find the educational effects of ‘the community-oriented education’ using the data of follow-up surveys of local university students. This study can confirm the attitude changes in the local attachment and the local-employment settlement between those who received and did not receive the community-oriented education by using data from two times. According to this study, the educational effect only appeared to be limited to the students coming from other regions rather than those within the region. Rather, we find out that local experiences such as volunteer activities and club activities increase the attachment to the local community. According to the estimation results on local-employment of local youth, local industrial structure and job opportunities variables were more significant. The local employment opportunities were a direct factor in local employment decisions of local university students.

Free Research Field

労働経済学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

学術的意義としては，地域間移動を経済的な要因だけでなく，地域志向教育効果などの心理的な要因を含めて分析を試みたことにある。地域間移動については，経済学や社会学，人口学など様々な分野でそれぞれの観点で分析が行われてきた。未だに分野横断的な研究が十分だとは言えない。ここに本研究の学術的意義があると言える。
社会的意義としては，人口減少の問題が深刻化する中，人口減少の最大の要因である地域間移動について焦点を当てたことにある。地方からの若者の移動は主に大学進学時と大学を卒業し，初職に就く時点である。初職選択行動要因を科学的に分析することは有効な政策立案のために貴重な基礎資料となりうる。