Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: To go beyond existing publications on inter-communal migrations in Switzerland, this paper focuses on a comparison of behaviours between communes of different types: rural, urban, mountain, tourist, etc. It is based on two sets of data: the Swiss Population Census (1999-2008) and the Swiss Household Panel. This paper has two main conclusions of this paper: first, contrary to the dominant practice which compares communes according to their respective difference between in-migration and out-migration rate, this paper highlights the contrast between “warm” and “cold” communes (comparing the migration rate itself); there is a "mountain factor" which means that most inter-communal migrations occur within the mountain zone, or within the Swiss Plateau.
Source: Revue de géographie alpine
DOI: 10.4000/rga.1368
Authors: Martin Camenisch, Bernard Debarbieux
Institutions: University of Geneva, Université Grenoble Alpes
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1986289949