Back to the City: Internal Return Migration to Metropolitan Regions in Sweden

Jan Amcoff and Thomas Niedomysl
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Jan Amcoff: Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, PO Box 513, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Thomas Niedomysl: Department of Human and Economic Geography, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; and Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sölvegatan 16, 22100 Lund, Sweden

Environment and Planning A, 2013, vol. 45, issue 10, 2477-2494

Abstract: Longitudinal microdata on the Swedish population, 1990–2006, are used to examine the numbers and characteristics of internal return migrants, emphasizing Sweden's three largest cities. Our study indicates that metropolitan regions are gaining population from net return migration, which thus carries people in the same direction as does most internal migration. Evidence also indicates that returnees to metropolitan regions are more likely to stay permanently than are migrants returning elsewhere. Furthermore, return migrants to metropolitan regions are distinguished from other return migrants in ways that emphasize the advantages of these regions, higher incomes and levels of education being among the pronounced attributes. However, metro-bound returnees do not have as many children as do other return migrants.

Keywords: internal return migration; metropolitan areas; urban (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/a45492

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