Moving home again? Never! The locational choices of graduates in Sweden

Bjerke, Lina; Mellander, Charlotta

doi:10.1007/s00168-016-0777-2

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“…Counter-urban research conducted in a Swedish context has mainly focused on migration to areas perceived as truly rural, and has covered issues such as how out-migration from cities affects the rural population development (Westlund, 2002;Westlund and Pichler, 2013) and the countryside's labour markets and economic life (Bjerke and Mellander, 2016;Eliasson et al, 2015;Hjort and Malmberg, 2006;Lindgren, 2003). Other Swedish studies have focused on who the counter-urban movers are (Bjerke and Mellander, 2016;Hjort and Malmberg, 2006;Lindgren, 2003), on comparing movers from urban to rural areas with those moving in the other direction, and on preferences for migration to rural areas (Niedomysl and Amcoff, 2011). Hedberg and Haandrikman (2014) have studied the diversity of international migration to rural areas in Sweden.…”

Section: Counterurbanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Which families move out from metropolitan areas? Counterurban migration and professions in Sweden

Sandow

Lundholm

2019

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing revitalisation of the counterurbanisation research within population geography by nuancing counterurban migration beyond the rural–urban dichotomy, including all moves downwards in the urban hierarchy. The focus is to explore counterurban migration patterns among families with children leaving Swedish metropolitan areas, and whether some groups of skilled professions are more likely to make a counterurban move than others. Using register data on all families moving out from metropolitan areas in Sweden during the period 2003–2013, we found a small but steady outflow of families, mainly to medium-sized or small towns. The highly educated are overrepresented among these families, thus providing potential for an inflow of competence to the receiving areas. Contrary to expected, the assumed flexibility in time and space among knowledge sector professionals does not seem to enable them more than others to pursue counterurban moves. Instead, public sector professionals characterise families making a counterurban move to all destination regions, while men with a profession within arts and crafts to a higher extent move with their family to more rural areas.

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Section: Counterurbanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Which families move out from metropolitan areas? Counterurban migration and professions in Sweden

Sandow

Lundholm

2019

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…Life cycle stages are important, too. For instance, having children is a very strong motive for returning to the rural home region after graduation (Bjerke & Mellander, )Research question 1 Which factors influence the decisions of (college and university) students originating from rural areas to return to the countryside after graduation?…”

Section: Literature Review On the Rural Return Migration Of Highly Edmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Policies designed to effectively motivate college and university graduates to start their professional careers in the countryside have largely proved ineffective. One explanation for this is the limited knowledge on the motivations and characteristics of returning graduates (Bjerke & Mellander, ). Our main objective is therefore to determine, in relation to their characteristics, young graduates' motivations to return to rural areas.…”

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confidence: 99%

Return to the countryside: The return intentions of highly educated young people in the Akmola province of northern Kazakhstan

Buchenrieder

Dufhues

Möllers

et al. 2019

Population Space and Place

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The rural out‐migration of young people leads to problems such as “brain drain” and the overageing of the rural population. The purpose of this paper is to study return migration motives among students originating from rural areas. The case study relates to the province of Akmola, northern Kazakhstan. Based on data collected from college and university students (n = 357), a binary logistic regression model is used to identify rural return motives. Noneconomic and economic motives are equally important in forming a return intention. Our findings do not suggest that particularly underperforming students intend to return. As expected, compared with those in major cities, students who study in a regional town intend to return more often. We also found a large difference in return intentions along ethnic lines. Students of non‐Kazakh decent are much more likely to return than ethnic Kazakhs, and the two ethnic groups have quite distinct motives indicating signs of ethnic discrimination against non‐Kazakhs in the job market.

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“…The existing empirical evidence on internal mobility is mainly in line with the push and pull factors discussed in Lee's migration theory (1966) and the consideration that individual and structural factors shape the mobility behavior of graduates: In terms of individual factors, many studies show that mobility experience prior to graduation (including exchange semesters) is an important predictor for mobility after graduation (Faggian et al 2007;Falk and Kratz 2009;Haapanen and Tervo 2012;Maier and Sprietsma 2016;Von Proff et al 2016;Haussen and Uebelmesser 2018b). Socio-demographic characteristics such as age or marital status or children (Faggian et al 2007;Van Proff et al 2016;Bjerke and Mellander 2017) are also relevant for mobility decisions after graduation. The results for sex are not consistent (Busch and Weigert 2010;Venhorst et al 2011;Abreu et al 2014;Van Proff et al 2016;Newbold 2017) as are the results for the fields of study.…”

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confidence: 52%

Are they coming back? The mobility of university graduates in switzerland

Oggenfuss

Wolter

2019

Rev Reg Res

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The present paper focus on the possible impact of university graduates' internal mobility in Switzerland. This is an interesting setting because all the cantons have to bear the public costs for their students irrespective of the students' study place of choice. As not all the cantons have a university, in some cantons students have to leave their home involuntarily to attend university. Focusing on the description of factors explaining internal graduate mobility, we investigate which of the cantons lose potential tax payers for which they had to bear the study costs and discuss the potential consequences on the financing of higher education. On average, half of the students who had left their place of living in order to study do not return to their home canton. Approximately half of those who do not return from the canton in which they studied move to a third canton. Besides other factors, which are linked to post-graduation mobility, we find that top-performing students return less often than low performers. As a consequence, the cantons without universities face a quantitative as well as a qualitative disadvantage compared to cantons with a university.

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Moving home again? Never! The locational choices of graduates in Sweden

Cited by 37 publications

References 28 publications

Which families move out from metropolitan areas? Counterurban migration and professions in Sweden

Which families move out from metropolitan areas? Counterurban migration and professions in Sweden

Return to the countryside: The return intentions of highly educated young people in the Akmola province of northern Kazakhstan

Are they coming back? The mobility of university graduates in switzerland

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