Economic theory predicts that individual migration decisions for working-age adults will depend on area differences in wages, housing costs, and amenities. While the importance of wages and amenities is well-established from previous empirical studies, evidence regarding housing costs is far...

Cette étude propose un panorama de la situation de l'emploi salarié agricole en France et de son évolution au cours de la période contemporaine en mobilisant différentes sources statistiques. Après avoir décrit les conditions générales de l'emploi salarié -le type de contrat, la nature...

This paper attempts to determine whether residential location affects unemployment duration. Our analysis is based on a spatial job search framework that shows the importance of dissociating the role of travel time from physical distance in unemployment duration. The contribution of our study...

Based on the study of a cohort of individuals born between 1939 and 1946 enumerated in an industrial village in eastern France in the 1954 census, this article presents a model of working-class non-migration. The integration of unskilled workers is shown to proceed by marriage with local-born...

L'évolution démographique des espaces à dominante rurale n'est plus négative depuis la fin des années 70 et cette évolution favorable s'est amplifiée au cours des 30 dernières années. Elle est le résultat d'un solde migratoire positif, qui vient plus que compenser le déficit naturel...

Migration flows between urban and rural areas in developed countries show a strong difference in migration destinations with regard to age. Our paper analyses, in the French case, who rural areas attract or repel and what their so-called “pull-factors” are. Our goal is to explain the...

Economic theory predicts that individual migration decisions for working-age adults will depend on area differences in wages, housing costs, and amenities. While the importance of wages and amenities is well-established from previous empirical studies, evidence regarding housing costs is far...