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The Last Adventure: Retirement Migration, Climate and "Amenities"
Migracijske i etničke teme, 2001 The rising number of European retirement migrants on the Mediterranean coasts, especially in the EU countries shows that the practical and scientific relevance of the new forms of migration in Europe is on the rise.
Saša Božić
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Using Zebrafish to Study Collective Cell Migration in Development and Disease
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2018 Cellular migration is necessary for proper embryonic development as well as maintenance of adult health. Cells can migrate individually or in groups in a process known as collective cell migration.
Hannah M. Olson +2 more
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The Mobile Core: Perpetuating Tourism Leakage Through the Socioecological Fix in South Korea
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By adopting the socioecological fix concept, this study aims to examine the spatial dynamics of tourism leakage. An ethnographic examination of an ecotourism project on Jeju Island, South Korea was conducted for 18 months from 2011 to 2013.
Souyeon Nam
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Mountain Research and Development, 2017 Amenity and lifestyle migration is a global phenomenon that may be considered an agent of transformation of the local dynamics of rural areas. This new migratory trend has been observed in the last few years in the Andean Araucanía in southern Chile, an ...
Carla Marchant Santiago
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The role of landscape amenities in regional development: a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies [PDF]
Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape.
Fabian Waltert, Felix Schlaepfer
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Budding enrollment: The impact of cannabis policy on US colleges and universities
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We examine how liberalized recreational marijuana laws have affected freshmen enrollment and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) major choice using difference‐in‐differences and event study models. Estimates indicate near‐zero initial enrollment growth as schools substituted between in‐state and out‐of‐state students.
Joshua H. Hess, Danna Thomas
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Implicit amenity prices and the location of retirees in England and Wales
, 2009 General equilibrium models in which compensation for local amenities occurs in both housing and labour markets have been widely used to generate implicit amenity prices and regional quality of life indices.
Lee, J., Stewart, Geoff
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Infrastructure expansion, tourism and electoral outcomes
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the electoral impact of economic growth through increased foreign tourism using data from Croatia. To identify causal effects, the paper applies an instrumental variable strategy, which uses variation in the ruggedness of the local terrain to estimate the network of least‐cost paths.
Adrian Mehic
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New Highlander Entrepreneurs in the Swiss Alps
Mountain Research and Development, 2016 Mountain regions are generally seen as depopulating. However, in the European Alps, a new migration trend can be observed that may represent a reversal of out-migration from these regions.
Heike Mayer, Rahel Meili
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Economica, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the long‐term effects of ‘Apni Beti Apna Dhan’ (ABAD), a unique conditional cash transfer programme implemented in the north Indian state of Haryana from 1994 to 1998. The programme provided bonds to female beneficiaries at birth, redeemable on attaining 18 years of age, if they remained unmarried. In particular, we examine
Shreya Biswas, Upasak Das
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