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Internal Migration in the Developed World: Are We Becoming Less Mobile?

Ronald Skeldon
- 29 May 2018 - 
- Vol. 72, Iss: 2, pp 277-279
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This collection of original essays makes for a good book and, I will argue, an important book.
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This collection of original essays makes for a good book and, I will argue, an important book. It is a good book in that it is logically structured, and a consistent theme runs through the chapters...

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The effects of information and communication technologies on residential mobility and migration

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the long-term decline in residential mobility and migration in many developed countries and conclude that ICTs are capable of both enhancing and impeding residential mobility.
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International Migration, Internal Migration, Mobility and Urbanization: Towards More Integrated Approaches

TL;DR: The authors argued that human mobility is best conceived as a system that integrates internal and international migration within a single framework and that gives due account to tourism and its significant linkages with migration.
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Decline in internal migration levels in Australia: Compositional or behavioural effect?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply an Oaxaca-blinder decomposition method to individual-level data from the 2001 and 2016 censuses and find behavioural effects to be the principal factor explaining this downward trend.
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Internal Migration Patterns In Italy: Continuity And Change Before And During The Great Recession1

TL;DR: Bonifazi et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the effects of the great recession, sparked in 2008, on internal migration in Italy and found that the most significant contribution made by internal mobility was in the years of the economic boom when it was one of the main drivers of the country's modernization process.
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The Impact of Internal Migration on the Spatial Distribution of Population in Germany over the Period 1991-2017

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the importance of internal migration for shaping the spatial population distribution of Germany in the last three decades using a time-series dataset of annual inter-county migration flows from the German population register for the years 1991 to 2017.
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The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition

TL;DR: In the field of geography and demography, such broad intellectual designs have been especially scarce as mentioned in this paper, and there are probably no more than three major geographical paradigms in active use today.
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The hypothesis of mobility transition.

Zelinsky W
- 01 Apr 1971 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a 5-stage mobility transition model is presented in outline form, where a vital transition is placed in parallel position to indicate contemporaneity between adjacent segments of the 2 columns even though no suggestion of absolute date or duration can be offered.
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Demand Theories of the Fertility Transition: An Iconoclastic View

TL;DR: The authors argue that demand theories do not offer a plausible explanation of the fertility transition and propose that ideational, rather than structural, economic change lies at the heart of the transition, and suggest that attitudes to birth control, broadly defined, play a crucial role.