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Barcus H. R. (2004) Urban-rural migration in the USA: an analysis of residential satisfaction, Regional Studies38, 643 …-657. The past 30 years have witnessed three major shifts in the direction of migration flows in the USA. During the 1970s and … 1991 American Housing Survey. Data for the USA are assessed using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit models …
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This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
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This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
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Scientific writing about neo-rurality in Quebec remains quite rare and has mainly focused on the experience of newcomers while offering little perspective of the greater ensemble. The present article sheds new light in this regard using qualitative data collected during research conducted in two...
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This study examines the challenges posed by cohabitation in rural areas. In addition to addressing the issue of land-use conflicts, it focusses on the relations between oldtimers (e.g. locals) and newcomers by means of surveys of the daily interactions as well as an analysis of the lay discourse...
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The relocation of a small business from an urban to a rural area is an atypical spatial trajectory considering the well-documented tendency towards spatial inertia displayed by small businesses. Based on an extended literature review and 10 case studies, we propose a typology of the relocation...
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The sociodemographic redefinition of rural space is a recent phenomena in Québec compared to France and the United Kingdom. First, the author presents a brief historical overview of the related studies completed in Québec, followed by the results of an exploratory research which she undertook...
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The media and policy makers often mention that China manipulates its real exchange rate (RER) in order to improve its exports and boost growth. This view, however, is not supported by the most prominent economic models, which do not predict a positive relationship between real undervaluation and...
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This article explores the role of migrant networks in Mexican rural out-migration focusing on how network composition influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, and rural-to-international migration. Using data from rural Mexico, migration is considered in a multiple-choice context allowing for...
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