| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, Taiwan city and county governments to fight for higher central budget allocations have taken the upgrading method in order to get more resources for local development. Population has become an important indicator of identifying the size of the county and city governments. City and county governments often offered a number of preferential policies to attract residents from other counties to migrate into the area that meets its regional scale to achieve the goal of upgrading. From 2009, there were five municipalities for the upgrading. Taoyuan County was one of the upgraded area to the municipalities. Therefore, the study of policies that county and city governments have adopted to attract population migration has been a very important issue.
In this study, we use the data collected from the government public information between the years in 1998 and 2014, and apply the method of least squares estimation and fixed effects model to analyze the main factors that affects the migration between the cities and counties in Taiwan area. The variables used in the models are classified as basic, economics and social class variables in which the variables of connecting the social welfare policies and economic development policies are in particular of interests. The estimation results show that the social welfare policies exist the bigger effects on the impact of migration more than those from the economic development policies. The study also found that personal tax burden, average household income, unemployment rate, crime rate, proportion of industry and commerce activities, living spaces, and local government elections, all will have a significant impact on population movements between cities and counties. | en_US |