A central element in contemporary regional development strategies is the ability for regions to attract and retain talented people. The underlying argument that by attracting people, are better geared meet demand of competences knowledge economy become more competitive. This article focuses on migration creative class Sweden. Three questions, recent theoretical claims but until now overlooked, addressed: (i) Do members move often compared other migrant groups? (ii) Are they selective their...

Niedomysl T. How migration motives change over distance: evidence on variation across socio-economic and demographic groups, Regional Studies. Migration researchers have long known that the for changing place of residence vary distance. Typically, short-distance moves are regarded as motivated by housing considerations longer-distance primarily employment considerations. Using a large-scale survey motives, this paper explores how Particular attention is paid to variations groups. The results...

Highly skilled workers are increasingly recognised as a key competitive asset for regional development, and claims have been made that emphasise the importance of certain amenities prospects attracting this particular group workers. We use recent large-scale survey to investigate relative jobs versus decision migrate, perceived by migrants themselves. The paper thereby adds important insights existing literature has hitherto mainly focused on analysing extent which aggregate migration flows...

Marriage fields—the geographical areas where people meet to partner—traditionally tend be relatively small and local. Increasing international travel the use of internet have broadened opportunity structure potential partners. This increases chances meeting a partner from abroad, possibly resulting in rise marriage migration. paper uses unique longitudinal population data for whole Sweden explore globalisation Swedish fields. The results show an increase 'marriage migrants' between 1990...

Abstract Internal return migration has received limited attention in most western countries, despite studies attesting to its potential for helping understand population redistribution. This paper compares differences self‐reported motives between and non‐return migrants. Particular is paid individual characteristics the types of places these two migrant groups seek. The large‐scale Swedish survey data employed this study make it exhaustive on subject date, enabling exploration different...

Abstract Human activity is a major driver of change and has contributed to many the challenges we face today. Detailed information about human population distribution fundamental use freely available, high-resolution, gridded datasets on global as source such increasing. However, there little research guide users in dataset choice. This study evaluates five most commonly used against high-resolution Swedish pixel level. We show that which employ more complex modeling techniques exhibit lower...

Policy makers are showing increasing interest in factors that make places attractive for prospective new residents. This paper focuses on residential preferences interregional migration and aims to explore what place attributes people would value highly if they considered migrating. Special attention is given differences between population subgroups terms of demographic, socioeconomic, geographical determinants. An ambitious prestudy with 390 respondents was carried out ascertain relevant...

The statistical resources at hand for segregation research are usually almost exclusively confined to annual or decennial records where the only available spatial information is individual’s place of residence. This coarse temporal periodicity and resolution provides a very limited account people’s diurnal lives. Incorporating mobility dimensions in analysis advocated within growing body but there has rarely been sufficient data make this possible. In paper, we employ fine-grained mobile...

Migration is commonly defined by a temporal and spatial dimension. It generally agreed that these dimensions are problematic could seriously distort understanding of migration, but data constraints have effectively obstructed further insights. This article focuses on the dimension where migration typically as movement across administrative borders. Borders usually serve proxies for distance validity such largely unknown, posing considerable challenge to research. Using all internal migrants...

During the last few years, Swedish municipalities have become increasingly engaged in competition to attract in-migrants. An important element of these efforts has been use place-marketing campaigns and promotion. Very little is known, however, about attempts terms number involved, economic efforts, ways marketing, target groups, etc. Furthermore, more importantly, as for studies general, there at evaluation. The author's purpose provide an overview evaluate effects made by Sweden empirical...

A bstract Rural depopulation is a concern in many countries, and various policy initiatives have been taken to combat such trends. This article examines whether hidden potential for rural population growth can be found Sweden. If exists, it implies that the development prospects areas are not as unpromising they may seem today. not, rapid expected policymakers will increase their focus on how lessen problems associated with decline. We employ combination of survey data register identify...

Abstract.The attractiveness of places is currently gaining a high policy salience in policymakers' efforts to draw mobile capital. Yet, while there are growing number empirical studies considering the migration people and places, an acute lack conceptual understanding phenomena that hamper discussions between researchers policymakers. This article suggests framework whereby place can be better understood from perspective. The material for this mainly draws upon interviews were carried out...

Abstract Purpose – Place marketing approaches are increasingly employed by public authorities competing to attract capital. While a growing number of studies have provided valuable insights, scholars appear be struggling advance their theoretical understanding. This is arguably the result failure produce evidence‐based research, excessive focus on small‐scale case studies, difficulties bridging disciplinary boundaries, and reluctance generalizations. To overcome these problems, purpose this...

Abstract The traditional important role of maps used for educational purposes has gained further potential with recent advances in GIS technology. But beyond specific courses cartography this seems little realized geography teaching. This article investigates the extent to which any learning benefits may be derived from use such technologies. A controlled experiment was conducted examine whether information recall is improved when cartographic on population distribution presented 2D versus...

Abstract A common finding of 30–40 years family migration studies worldwide is that such primarily benefits the careers men in couples but generally damages women's careers. Findings have recently become more nuanced as research focus has broadened, hinting families returning to one spouse's region previous residence might deviate from this general observation gainers. The present demonstrates when migrate regions where spouse previously lived, it female who tends return, male (and children,...

Abstract The spatial dimension in the definition of internal migration usually refers to distance someone has move be regarded as a migrant. Lack precise data on distances, however, obliged researchers use aggregate measures whose accuracy is largely unknown, raising potentially serious validity concerns for research. aim this paper examine standard and seek practical means improving their validity. Employing uniquely detailed where individual distances an entire country's population have...

Abstract Knowledge about the past, current and future distribution of human population is fundamental for tackling many global challenges. Censuses are used to collect information within a specified spatial unit. The units usually arbitrarily defined their numbers, size shape tend change over time. These issues make comparisons between areas countries difficult. We have in related work proposed that lit area derived from nighttime lights, weighted by its intensity can be analyse...

Abstract Contemporary research on migration has benefited from adopting a variety of methodological approaches and different sources information to provide answers the ever‐recurring question why people migrate. Yet, when it comes central methods used for researching motives, progress appears have been slow. This paper focuses surveys motives using self‐administered postal questionnaires. It addresses key validity question, namely issue whether usage open‐ended questions creates coder...

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

Business owners play an important role in driving regional economic growth, and policy-makers seek to attract retain such entrepreneurs by most means available. This paper analyses migration patterns, the factors that influence propensity move assesses relationship between firm performance individual both before after move. The results show (1) known explaining variables of also hold for business owners; (2) with more substantial firms terms turnover employees are geographically anchored;...