title: Who will leave?  Oil, migration, and Scottish island youth.
abstract: "Using survey data from high school students of Scotland's Shetland and Orkney Islands (affected by North Sea oil development), we explore relations between intentions to migrate and individual background, aspirations, and attitudes.  Attitudes toward oil development do not predict migration intentions.  Instead, migration intentions are predicted by essentially the same variables identified in other studies, in areas where energy development was not occurring.  Thus, we found no evidence that oil development fundamentally changed young people's thoughts about leaving."
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources; D004777:Environment; D005060:Europe; D007221:Industry; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D012606:Scotland; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Age Factors; Attitude; Behavior; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Energy Supply; Environment; Europe; Industrialization; Migration--determinants; Natural Resources; Northern Europe; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Psychological Factors; Scotland; United Kingdom; Youth