What matters for internal migration, jobs or amenities?

• DOI: 10.33182/ml.v11i3.231
• Publication Date: 2018-12-18T00:37:33Z
• Authors: Thomas Niedomysl; William A V Clark
• Keywords: Internal migration; Human migration

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.