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Deindustrialization and demographic change: Evidence from big plant closures and downsizing

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract We estimate the causal effect of big manufacturing plant closures and downsizing on the socioeconomic composition of Canadian cities between 2001 and 2021. Our instrumental variables estimates show that big manufacturing plant closures and downsizing—large local labour demand shocks—lead to less population growth and a shift in the demographic
Kristian Behrens, Florian Mayneris, Manassé Drabo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Amenity migration and its forms in the region of West Bohemia

, 2012
The main objective of this thesis is to determine the model assumptions (Western Bohemia region-Planá, Marianské Lázně and Tachov) for the establishment and existence of the phenomenon of "amenity migration".
SOBÍŠKOVÁ, Kateřina
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The mortality gradient in town and country: Social class and childhood mortality in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines social‐class and urban–rural differentials in childhood mortality in Sweden from 1880 to 1910, a period of steady mortality decline, ongoing industrialization, and urbanization. Urbanization brought improvements in water quality and sanitation but also increased risks from overcrowding, pollution, and infectious diseases ...
Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe
wiley   +1 more source

Leisure negotiation within amenity migration

, 2010
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openaire   +2 more sources

Connectivity and Selective Rural Migration

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does infrastructure shape rural development? Using household panel data from a nationally representative sample of Chinese villages, matched to high‐resolution highway maps, we find that road expansion between 2000 and 2015 operates mainly through reallocation, with less productive farmers scaling down or exiting and more productive ...
Lin Ma, Yuan Mei, Qunfeng Wu, Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amenity migration and tourism participation: a comparative case study of Seine Bight and Placencia, Belize

, 2017
Tourism is a leading industry where there is more demand now than ever for sustainable practices. This is due to the economic, environmental, and social pressures faced by tourism destinations through growing proportions of tourists and amenity migrants ...
Hain, Sarah
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

Graduate Migration and Job Quality: Evidence From Five Cohorts of UK Graduate Outcomes Data

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between graduate employment migration and subjective job quality in the UK, using five cohorts of Higher Education Statistics Agency Graduate Outcomes microdata covering the 2018/19 to 2022/23 cohorts. Graduates are classified using a five‐way typology: Stayers (never leave the home region), Late Migrants ...
Sean Brophy
wiley   +1 more source