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Leisure Negotiation Within Amenity Migration
Annals of Tourism Research, 2015Abstract Amenity migration is typically defined as the migration to places of extra-ordinary physical, recreational and cultural amenities. While much has been written about the impacts of amenity migration little is known about the experience of amenity migrants at the destination, and specifically how they negotiate for what is arguably their ...
Joe Pavelka, Dianne Draper
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Jobs versus amenities in the analysis of metropolitan migration
Journal of Urban Economics, 1989"This paper demonstrates that jobs and wages are considerably more important than location-specific amenities in explaining net metropolitan migration of employed persons [in the United States]. These results, which are derived mainly from a unique set of annual migration data, differ considerably from the earlier findings of P. E.
M J, Greenwood, G L, Hunt
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disP - The Planning Review, 2017
This book is a large collection of 25 papers on a very broad range of aspects concerning a central theme, which – according to the editors – was first given the label “amenity migration” about 30–4...
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This book is a large collection of 25 papers on a very broad range of aspects concerning a central theme, which – according to the editors – was first given the label “amenity migration” about 30–4...
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Amenity Migration in the New Global Economy: Current Issues and Research Priorities
Society and Natural Resources, 2015 © 2015, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Drawing from a panel session held in June 2013 at the 19th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management in Estes Park, CO, this article offers a review of the current state of research on ...
Richelle Winkler +2 more
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Amenity Migration in the U.S. Sierra Nevada
Geographical Review, 2007Since 1960 California's Sierra Nevada counties have ranked among the regions with the strongest relative population growth in the state.
Roland Loeffler, Ernst Steinicke
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Amenity Retirement Migration Process: A Model and Preliminary Evidence
The Gerontologist, 1993A heuristic model of the retirement migration process was developed and explored using survey data from 586 migrants to western North Carolina. Five distinct subgroups were investigated: those who went from part- to full-time residency; those who thought about not migrating; individuals who migrated, remained in the labor force for a short period, and ...
W H, Haas, W J, Serow
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A Research Agenda for Tourism Amenity Migration Destinations
Tourism Recreation Research, 2006For more than a century, the character of mountain communities in North America has co-evolved with the shifting nature of their economies. For those alpine places traditionally linked to tourism enterprise, the primary shift has been from ski towns built around adventure, winter sport and related lifestyle values, to resort communities focused on ...
Peter W. Williams, A.M. Gill
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What matters for internal migration, jobs or amenities?
Migration Letters, 2014There is an ongoing debate about whether jobs or amenities matter more for economic 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” approach neglects the complexity of the migration process and the role that social processes play in the ...
Thomas Niedomysl, William A. V. Clark
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Skills, Migration and Urban Amenities over the Life Cycle
We examine sorting behavior across metropolitan areas by skill over individuals’ life cycles. We show that high-skill workers disproportionately sort into high-amenity areas, but do so relatively early in life. Workers of all skill levels tend to move towards lower-amenity areas during their thirties and forties. Consequently, individuals’ time use andAlbouy, David, Faberman, R. Jason
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Migration and rural development: resettlement, remittances and amenities
2013Although most countries in the world are rapidly urbanizing, the majority of the global population – particularly the poor – continue to live in rural areas. This Handbook rejects the popular notion that urbanization should be universally encouraged and presents clear evidence of the vital importance of rural people and places, particularly in terms of
Shaun A. Golding, Katherine J. Curtis
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