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What matters for internal migration, jobs or amenities?

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  • Thomas Niedomysl

    (the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.)

  • William A. V. Clark

    (the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.)

Abstract

There is an ongoing debate about whether jobs or amenities matter more for econom-ic growth and by extension for regional migration. We review these debates briefly and point out that amenities are not always well defined and that the “either or” ap-proach neglects the complexity of the migration process and the role that social pro-cesses play in the migration decision. While we acknowledge that there is still consid-erable ambiguity over the role that returns to employment play for internal migration decisions, this does not necessarily mean that the ambiguity can be replaced by calling on amenities as the major force in explaining migration flows.

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  • Thomas Niedomysl & William A. V. Clark, 2014. "What matters for internal migration, jobs or amenities?," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 11(3), pages 377-386, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:11:y:2014:i:3:p:377-386
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    Cited by:

    1. Michael Thomas & Brian Joseph Gillespie & Nik Lomax, 2019. "Variations in migration motives over distance," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 40(38), pages 1097-1110.
    2. Clara Mulder, 2018. "Putting family centre stage: Ties to nonresident family, internal migration, and immobility," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 39(43), pages 1151-1180.

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