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Studies on university campuses public spaces have recognized that there is a significant relationship between the built environment and people's perceptions of creativity. There is, however, little empirical evidence to support this claim. This research quantifies and measures this relationship, defined as 'spatial affordances for creativity', using two types of Dutch university campuses as case studies: inner-city campuses and science parks (SPs). This study found statistical associations that locations of built environment features influenced creativity between people. Moreover, spatial affordances for creativity must be considered in the planning and design of campuses, as a suite of spatial and perceptual conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mapping of cultural ecosystem services through online public participation GIS (PPGIS) has predominantly relied on geographic entities, such as points and polygons, to collect spatial data, regardless of their limitations. As the potential of online PPGIS to support planning and design keeps growing, so does the need for more knowledge about data quality and suitable geographic entities to collect data. Using the online PPGIS tool, "My Green Place," 449 respondents mapped cultural ecosystem services in Ghent by using all three geographic entities: point, polygon, and the novel "marker." The three geographic entities' accuracy was analyzed through a quadrat analysis, regressions against the collective truth, the Akaike information criterion, and a preference test based on the survey's outcomes. The results show that the point reflects the weakest the collective truth, especially for mapping dynamic cultural practices, and the marker reflects it the strongest. The polygon's performance compares to that of the marker's, albeit slightly weaker. The marker delivers a more nuanced image of the respondents' input, is simpler to use, and has less risk of spatial errors. Therefore, we suggest using the marker instead of the point and the polygon when collecting spatial data in future cultural ecosystem services research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the roles of individual and household characteristics in internal migration in Indonesia for the first time using the five waves of Indonesia Family Life Survey. Our analysis extends previous research by using a longer period to capture mobility behaviour, by comparing changing of residence across three spatial scales, by incorporating the interaction of relation to household head and gender, and by differentiating migration involving the interaction of Sumatra, Java, other regions and rural-urban areas. The multinomial logistic regression results are consistent with international observations relating to age, education, marital status, previous migration, dependents, family size, and income. Some unique features from this study are the results which show that the probability of migrating by gender varies according to one's relation to the household head, which highlights the importance of gender and family structure in migration decision-making. Residents of Java have lower probabilities of migrating, compared to non-Java residents for smaller spatial scale migrations, but are relatively likely to engage in inter-provincial migration. Urban-originating moves are more likely than rural-originating moves for all spatial scales except for Sumatra where its rural residents have a higher probability of migrating inter-provincially than its urban residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is now strong evidence that "soft" institutions are interrelated with the working of the economy. For example, in a geographical setting there is evidence that language borders affect interpersonal relationships, but there is no equivalent evidence regarding the effects of language borders on agglomeration or competition spillovers. This paper examines whether language affects the geographical extension of agglomeration and competition spillovers by observing the geography of employment patterns in a linguistically discontinuous setting. Our findings, for the first time, provide empirical evidence that language borders shape the distance decay of competition spillovers, independent of governance, and institutional issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We adapt the product-space approach of Hausmann–Hidalgo et al. to the case of Italian provinces, examining the extent to which network connectedness and centrality of a province's exports is related to its economic performance. We construct a new Product Space Position (PSP) index which retains many of the Hausmann–Hidalgo et al. features but which is also much better suited to handling regional and provincial data. The PSP index is found to outperform other indices. Our comparison throws light on fundamental aspects of network-cognitive-distance-trade arguments. A better positioning in the export-network product space is indeed associated with better local economic outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban-rural interdependences are modelled based on wages, cost of living, and interregional migration and commuting. Rural-to-urban commuting generates a scenario where the relative level of urban wages can continue to outperform rural wages without residential migration and increased costs of living acting as equilibrating forces. The spread of urban workers could be detrimental for rural regions without clear mechanisms for their human and financial capital to penetrate local economies. Therefore, ‘what’s in it for the rural?’ depends upon the ability of rural regions to capture the value attached to highly mobile, skilled workers choosing to live in the rural region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We estimate the impact of internal migration on job‐match quality for recent Dutch university and college graduates. We find positive yet modest wage returns. After controlling for the self‐selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no longer significant for university graduates and all graduates from peripheral areas. We also find that, for our alternative job‐match measures, where there is evidence of migrant self‐selection, controlling for self‐selection strongly reduces the effect of internal migration on job‐match quality. In some cases, the returns on internal migration are found to be negative, which may signal forced migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study the recursive relationship between the ability of Dutch cities to attract recent graduate human capital to their labour-or housing markets and a city's skills structure, using a comprehensive dataset and a novel operationalisation strategy. We disentangle production and consumption spillovers by separating out human capital employed in a city's labour market and human capital present in a city's resident population, respectively. We do so for both the recent graduates flowing into Dutch cities to find work and a residential location, as well as for the incumbent workers and population. We control for the effects of a city's skills endowments, its (non-) economic characteristics and those of other relevant cities. We find positive effects of a relatively strong graduate labour market inflow on the share of higher and scientific-level jobs. Production spillovers therefore predominantly occur among the higher skilled. Contrary to the higher educated incumbent population, which appears to prefer high skilled services, recent graduate inflows to residential areas have positive effects on the share of jobs requiring lower and medium skills. Consumption spillovers from graduate residential inflows thus occur between higher and lower skilled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Considerable attention in the literature has been devoted to spatial mobility as a mechanism in the transition from study to work. In this paper, the relationships between migration and both regional economic circumstances and individual characteristics are investigated using a micro-dataset on Dutch college and university graduates. Over the last decade, some Dutch regions have retained increasingly higher proportions of college graduates. We find that the presence of a large labour market is the most important structural economic determinant for these higher retention rates. Cyclical determinants appear to affect university graduate migration more than college graduate migration. Une analyse des tendances dans la mobilite spatiale de diplomes de l'education superieure aux Pays-Bas Reume Differentes publications se sont consacrees dans une grande mesure a la mobilite spatiale, en tant que mecanisme pour la transition de l'etude a la pratique. Dans la presente communication, on se penche sur les rapports entre d'une part la migration, d'autre part des circonstances economiques regionales ainsi que des caracteristiques individuelles, en appliquant un micro fichier sur des diplomes de colleges et universites des Pays-Bas. Au cours des dix dernieres annees, certaines regions des Pays-Bas ont retenu une proportion toujours plus elevee de diplomes de colleges. Nous avons etabli que la presence d'un important marche du travail est l'element economique structurel le plus determinant pour justifier ces taux de retention eleves. Des determinants cycliques semblent affecter la migration de titulaires de diplomes universitaires plus qu'ils n'affectent la migration de diplomes de colleges. Analisis de las tendencias de movilidad espacial de los egresados del sistema holandes de educacion superior Resumen En las publicaciones especializadas se ha tratado con mucha atencion la movilidad espacial como un mecanismo de la transicion del estudio al trabajo. En esta investigacion se analiza la relacion entre la migracion, las circunstancias economicas regionales y las caracteristicas individuales, utilizando un micro conjunto de datos de egresados de universidades y colegios holandeses. Durante la ultima decada, algunas regiones de Holanda mantienen cuotas cada vez mas altas de egresados de colegios. Creemos que la presencia de un mercado laboral amplio es el determinante economico estructural mas importante para estos indices de retencion mayores. Parece que los determinantes ciclicos afectan en mayor medida la migracion de egresados universitarios que la migracion de egresados de colegios. [image omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some regions in The Netherlands have been experiencing population decline in the last decade(s). Although decline figures are much lower than in more traditional areas of decline in Europe, Dutch planners and policy-makers feel the need to develop several strategies of planning for decline. This paper gives an overview of regional population trends in the Netherlands up to 2040, showing that at the regional level, population growth and decline can occur next to each other in both urban and rural areas. The number of single-person households is expected to continue growing. However, single households form a varied group, and population trends differ substantially between urban and rural areas. The strategies applied by policy-makers who focus, so far, on accommodating decline through measures on the housing market are analysed. Next to this, some additional policy alternatives are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]