Vladimir Baláž
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vladimir Baláž |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Baláž |
| SIGNATURE | BALÁŽ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Forecasting of the Slovak Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8132-3789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 414 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Hubs, Flows and Hierarchies: Mapping European Student Mobility
This study examines the structural evolution of intra‐European student degree mobility networks for non‐PhD and PhD students across two periods (2013–2019 and 2020–2023) marked by Brexit and the COVID‐19 pandemic. Employing network analysis and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) gravity models, we identify persistent core‐periphery hierarchies, with Western and Northern European nations acting as dominant hubs. The analysis identifies key m…
From school to work: Enhancing cross-cutting competences in vocational education outcomes
Vocational education and training (VET) is expected to facilitate a smoother school-to-work transition compared to general secondary education. However, the transition often proves difficult, influenced by plethora of regional and institutional factors. Vocational schools in underdeveloped regions, for example, tend to demonstrate comparatively weaker outcomes than those in more developed areas, highlighting the critical role of regional contexts…
Tourist Decision-Making and Types of Crises: Risk Attitudes, Knowledge, and Destination Preference Persistence
The paper addresses how individual rankings of destinations change between non-crisis and crisis conditions, and across different types of crises under conditions of bounded rationality in the face of shifting risks and uncertainties. The impacts of three types of potential crises—heatwaves, epidemics, and terrorism—are analyzed using novel multi-perspective experimental methods linked to a five-country international survey of risk attitudes and …
Between spaces: Unravelling motives and distances in internal migration
Distance, economic disparities and housing market conditions are considered key moderators of internal migration. Existing research has used panels and surveys to establish the drivers of and barriers to domestic moves. This research employs administrative data on all Slovak internal migrants in 1997–2022 (2.38 million moves). The individual migrant data are associated with regional characteristics such as wages, unemployment rates, business acti…
Stability of risk and uncertainty preferences in tourism
This paper provides a novel longitudinal analysis of the stability of risk preferences in the travel domain, and how these are impacted by major life events during a crisis. Analysis of a four-wave survey during COVID-19 demonstrates strong inter-temporal stability of most risk preferences. It also reveals greater stability of generic risk traits and risk and uncertainty tolerance in travel compared to situational risk preferences. An innovative …
Indulgence, Self-Control, and Annuity Preferences: Annuity Choices by Members of the Slovak-Funded Private Pension Pillar
This paper employs data from an original survey to analyse the annuity preferences of members of the Slovak-funded private pension pillar. The focus is on the impact of socioeconomic variables as well as various behavioural attitudes upon annuitisation decisions. The research first considers some well-known behavioural factors (framing, mental accounting) and then turns to some underresearched traits (indulgence, self-control) and behaviours (com…
Economics of Biobanking: Business or Public Good? Literature Review, Structural and Thematic Analysis
This paper reviewed the relevant scientific literature on the business and economics of biobanking to explore key themes and paradigms. The structural properties of the literature were investigated, such as key authors, journals, studies, as well as co-citation and co-authorship networks; the study revealed that the research on business and economics is a niche area within the vast biobanking literature. The research is concentrated in a relative…
Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity amid Covid-19: A multi-national analysis of international travel intentions
This study analyses how Covid-19 shapes individuals' international tourism intentions in context of bounded rationality. It provides a novel analysis of risk which is disaggregated into tolerance/aversion of and competence to manage risks across three different aspects: general, domain (tourism) and situational (Covid-19). The impacts of risk are also differentiated from uncertainty and ambiguity. The empirical study is based on large samples (to…
Terrorism, migrant crisis and attitudes towards immigrants from outside of the European Union
This paper analyses how terrorist attacks and high inflows of immigrants impact public attitudes towards immigrants from outside the European Union (EU). It makes an original contribution by analysing both effects in tandem, using an extended longitudinal framework to assess both shorter and longer term impacts and taking into account the role of uncertainty. Ordered probit regression models are applied to data from nine consecutive Eurobarometer…
What competences, which migrants? Tacit and explicit knowledge acquired via migration
This paper analyses the links between the competences acquired via international migration, and the tacit versus explicit knowledge which are encapsulated in these. Whereas most research in this area utilises qualitative methods, this paper utilises a mixed methods approach. It draws on an online quantitative survey of the skills and competences acquired by young Slovak migrants (N = 366), complemented by more traditional in-depth interviews, wit…
Migration, risk tolerance and life satisfaction: Evidence from a large-scale survey
This paper brings new evidence on risk tolerance, migration and life satisfaction from a large-scale survey from in European countries (N = 28,636). The sample specifically targets young populations, which have been under-researched thus far. We distinguish between risk tolerance based on the ‘risk trait’ and that based on perceived competence. We relate these two types of risk tolerance to life satisfaction and show that the ‘risk trait’ and com…
Migration decisions in the face of upheaval: An experimental approach
The analysis of migration under conditions of potential economic and political upheaval is challenging because these undermine the institutional framework that underpins existing migration trajectories. Therefore, this paper demonstrates how an innovative experimental approach can be used to analyse migration decision making under disruptive scenarios of a deep economic crisis and the introduction of work permits. Such disruptions have particular…
Connectivity as the facilitator of intra‐European student migration
Student migration represents the major form of international human capital training and has significant implications for knowledge transfer and economic development, but its highly uneven geography remains relatively underresearched. This paper addresses two gaps in the research literature. First, it provides a temporal perspective by analysing intra‐European tertiary student exchange in three subperiods, within the time frame of 1998–2012, captu…
Tourism Risk and Uncertainty: Theoretical Reflections
The analysis of risk in tourism is fragmented and uneven and focuses relatively narrowly on risk as a set of negative outcomes to be avoided by individuals, firms, or destinations. This article contends that, because of general, and sector-specific, limitations to knowledge, systematic and unsystematic risks are central to all forms of tourism activities. There is a need for a stronger theoretical understanding of the different concepts of touris…
Experimental Research Methods in Migration: From Natural to True Experiments
Migration researchers have demonstrated relatively limited engagement with experimental research. The strongest engagement has been with natural experiments, which observe actual migrant behaviour, typically analysing migration behaviour before and after particular events, but have limitations in terms of control over the ‘experiment’. In contrast, researchers have relatively neglected the contribution of true experiments involving the manipulati…
International Migration and Knowledge
Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing international migration. This book challenges pre-conceived views on the debates and argues the need to understand that all migrants are potentially knowledge carriers and learners, and that they play an essential role in the globalization of knowledge transactions. Deconstructing th…
Migration Decision Making as Complex Choice: Eliciting Decision Weights Under Conditions of Imperfect and Complex Information Through Experimental Methods
Migration decisions are complex, involving both economic and non‐economic considerations, and are often made in conditions that depart significantly from the idealised information assumptions of many models. This paper uses a three‐stage experimental research design to analyse migrant decision making in the face of complexity and varying information conditions (complete, imperfect, and overloading). It pays particular attention to differences bas…
Mobility, risk tolerance and competence to manage risks
Migration is a risky behaviour because of the uncertainty about future wages, living conditions, changing relationships with family and friends and cultural adjustment. While there has been some research on risk and uncertainty in migration, this has mostly been approached as a form of ‘rational’ decision-making: such approaches explain why some groups of individuals are more likely than others to migrate, but are limited in explaining individual…
Tourism, risk tolerance and competences: Travel organization and tourism hazards
Migration, Risk, and Uncertainty: Theoretical Perspectives
Risk shapes, and is shaped by, migration: although widely acknowledged, this is unevenly, and mostly only implicitly, theorised and analysed. Starting from the distinction between risk and uncertainty, the paper contrasts the different approaches of economics and sociology to theorising risk, in terms of scale, social constructionism, and being informed by risk as opposed to being at risk. It reviews the extent to which six theoretical approaches…
Risk attitudes and migration experience
Although risk and uncertainty are intrinsic to human migration, there is surprisingly little explicit research on the willingness to take risks in this context. This paper analyses whether migrants are more or less likely than non‐migrants to be risk tolerant, and whether these differences are gendered. Attitudes are explored in terms of responses under conditions of both risk and uncertainty, and self‐assessment of capabilities is also taken int…
Low-Cost Carriers, Economies of Flows and Regional Externalities
Williams A. M. and Baláž V. Low-cost carriers, economies of flows and regional externalities, Regional Studies. The emergence of low-cost carriers, following air travel re-regulation in Europe, has major implications for individual firms and regional economies. Understanding regions as ‘economies of flows’, the paper explores, largely conceptually, how uneven, fluctuating, and fragmentary changes in air travel and connectivity, resulting from the…
International return mobility, learning and knowledge transfer: A case study of Slovak doctors
Path‐dependency and Path‐creation Perspectives on Migration Trajectories: The Economic Experiences of Vietnamese Migrants in Slovakia 1
There has been only limited research on the Vietnamese diaspora, and that has mostly focussed on Western market economies. This paper explores the distinctive migration, dictated by Cold War geopolitics, from Viet Nam to the Eastern bloc countries. It examines how the intersection of migration policies and politico‐economic conditions, before and after the end of state socialism in 1989, produced two distinctive migration phases. Faced with econo…
Political economy of the slovak capitalism from perspective of the institutional and evolutionary economics
The introductory parts of the paper analyse development of a local variety of capitalism in Slovakia from the institutional and evolutionary perspective. In early transition period privatisation policies were aimed at development of a liberal version of capitalism, based on fluid capital markets. These policies were confronted with institutional legacies of previous regimes. Privatisation, however, had major impact on structure of capital ownersh…
Migration, Risk, and Uncertainty: Theoretical Perspectives
Risk shapes, and is shaped by, migration: although widely acknowledged, this is unevenly, and mostly only implicitly, theorised and analysed. Starting from the distinction between risk and uncertainty, the paper contrasts the different approaches of economics and sociology to theorising risk, in terms of scale, social constructionism, and being informed by risk as opposed to being at risk. It reviews the extent to which six theoretical approaches…
Been there, done that’: International student migration and human capital transfers from the UK to Slovakia
International student migration remains an under‐researched field in migration studies, and this is especially true of return migration. This paper analyses students from Slovakia who have studied in the UK, both on degree courses and language/vocational courses, and have subsequently returned to their country of origin. It analyses their motivations, their acquisition of human capital in the UK, and the extent to which they have been able to rea…
Temporary versus Permanent Youth Brain Drain: Economic Implications
Existing high levels of temporary migration between Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union (EU) have highlighted a number of concerns relating to the eastern enlargement of the Union. While much of the debate has focused on the destinations, we use Slovakia as a case study to explore economic implications for the countries of origin of highly skilled migrants. First, the paper examines estimates of the scale of “youth brain migration”,…
International return mobility, learning and knowledge transfer: A case study of Slovak doctors
What Human Capital, Which Migrants? Returned Skilled Migration to Slovakia from the UK
This article contributes to the understanding of skilled labor migration by exploring some of the differences in the economic behavior of three contrasting groups of returned skilled labor migrants from Slovakia to the United Kingdom: professionals and managers; students; and au pairs. Formal professional experiences and training provide only limited understanding of the value of working/studying abroad. Instead, there is a need to look at partic…
International Labour Mobility and Uneven Regional Development in Europe: Human Capital, Knowledge and Entrepreneurship
Economic geographers have tended to neglect human mobility, and yet international labour migration constitutes significant flows that shape and are shaped by institutionally specific economic spaces. Three underlying themes run through the paper. First, the role of social networks in mediating relationships between flows and spaces. Second, the recomposition of the spatiality and temporality of flows in response to Europeanization and globalizati…
Risk, uncertainty and ambiguity amid Covid-19: A multi-national analysis of international travel intentions
This study analyses how Covid-19 shapes individuals' international tourism intentions in context of bounded rationality. It provides a novel analysis of risk which is disaggregated into tolerance/aversion of and competence to manage risks across three different aspects: general, domain (tourism) and situational (Covid-19). The impacts of risk are also differentiated from uncertainty and ambiguity. The empirical study is based on large samples (to…
Low-Cost Carriers, Economies of Flows and Regional Externalities
Williams A. M. and Baláž V. Low-cost carriers, economies of flows and regional externalities, Regional Studies. The emergence of low-cost carriers, following air travel re-regulation in Europe, has major implications for individual firms and regional economies. Understanding regions as ‘economies of flows’, the paper explores, largely conceptually, how uneven, fluctuating, and fragmentary changes in air travel and connectivity, resulting from the…
Mobility, risk tolerance and competence to manage risks
Migration is a risky behaviour because of the uncertainty about future wages, living conditions, changing relationships with family and friends and cultural adjustment. While there has been some research on risk and uncertainty in migration, this has mostly been approached as a form of ‘rational’ decision-making: such approaches explain why some groups of individuals are more likely than others to migrate, but are limited in explaining individual…
Migration Decision Making as Complex Choice: Eliciting Decision Weights Under Conditions of Imperfect and Complex Information Through Experimental Methods
Migration decisions are complex, involving both economic and non‐economic considerations, and are often made in conditions that depart significantly from the idealised information assumptions of many models. This paper uses a three‐stage experimental research design to analyse migrant decision making in the face of complexity and varying information conditions (complete, imperfect, and overloading). It pays particular attention to differences bas…
Path‐dependency and Path‐creation Perspectives on Migration Trajectories: The Economic Experiences of Vietnamese Migrants in Slovakia 1
There has been only limited research on the Vietnamese diaspora, and that has mostly focussed on Western market economies. This paper explores the distinctive migration, dictated by Cold War geopolitics, from Viet Nam to the Eastern bloc countries. It examines how the intersection of migration policies and politico‐economic conditions, before and after the end of state socialism in 1989, produced two distinctive migration phases. Faced with econo…
Tourism, risk tolerance and competences: Travel organization and tourism hazards
Five years of economic transition in Slovak tourism: Successes and shortcomings
Risk attitudes and migration experience
Although risk and uncertainty are intrinsic to human migration, there is surprisingly little explicit research on the willingness to take risks in this context. This paper analyses whether migrants are more or less likely than non‐migrants to be risk tolerant, and whether these differences are gendered. Attitudes are explored in terms of responses under conditions of both risk and uncertainty, and self‐assessment of capabilities is also taken int…
Winning, then Losing, the Battle with Globalization: Vietnamese Petty Traders in Slovakia
This article addresses the remarkable growth of Vietnamese market trading in Central and Eastern Europe, notably Slovakia, in the early 1990s, and its subsequent decline. The literature on ethnic entrepreneurship and cross-border petty trading provides partial insights into this phenomenon, but fails to explain the levels of concentration of the Vietnamese in market trading, or the rapid changes in this sector. We therefore conceptualize them as …
International Petty Trading: Changing Practices in Trans-Carpathian Ukraine
The opening of borders in eastern Europe, accompanied by partial re-regulation and institutionalization of markets, created exceptional conditions for arbitrage in the form of cross-border trading. Whilst there is evidence that this is in decline in Central Eastern Europe, because of developments in the formal retail sector and convergence in trading and consumption, it persists as a significant alternative economic site in many other parts of ea…
Stability of risk and uncertainty preferences in tourism
This paper provides a novel longitudinal analysis of the stability of risk preferences in the travel domain, and how these are impacted by major life events during a crisis. Analysis of a four-wave survey during COVID-19 demonstrates strong inter-temporal stability of most risk preferences. It also reveals greater stability of generic risk traits and risk and uncertainty tolerance in travel compared to situational risk preferences. An innovative …
Experimental Research Methods in Migration: From Natural to True Experiments
Migration researchers have demonstrated relatively limited engagement with experimental research. The strongest engagement has been with natural experiments, which observe actual migrant behaviour, typically analysing migration behaviour before and after particular events, but have limitations in terms of control over the ‘experiment’. In contrast, researchers have relatively neglected the contribution of true experiments involving the manipulati…
Japanese tourists in transition countries of Central Europe: Present behaviour and future trends
What competences, which migrants? Tacit and explicit knowledge acquired via migration
This paper analyses the links between the competences acquired via international migration, and the tacit versus explicit knowledge which are encapsulated in these. Whereas most research in this area utilises qualitative methods, this paper utilises a mixed methods approach. It draws on an online quantitative survey of the skills and competences acquired by young Slovak migrants (N = 366), complemented by more traditional in-depth interviews, wit…
From Private to Public Sphere, the Commodification of the Au Pair Experience? Returned Migrants from Slovakia to the UK
This paper explores three aspects of the au pair migration experience, through a case study of Slovakians, mostly but not all women, who have returned from sojourns in the United Kingdom. First, it argues that au pairs are distinctive from other migrants working in domestic service. Their positions have to be understood in terms of a particular regulatory framework, temporal restrictions, living-in conditions, and the blurring of rights and respo…
From collective provision to commodification of tourism
The EU and Central Europe: The Remaking of Economic Relationships
The reconstruction of economic relationships between Central Europe and the EU since 1989 has involved a major redrawing of the economic map of Europe. This paper investigates these relationships in the case of the V4 countries, disaggregating, wherever possible, the Czech and Slovak components of Czechoslovakia – prior to the ‘Velvet Divorce’. The analysis considers four main axes of change: stabilisation and privatisation, the reinternationalis…
Connectivity as the facilitator of intra‐European student migration
Student migration represents the major form of international human capital training and has significant implications for knowledge transfer and economic development, but its highly uneven geography remains relatively underresearched. This paper addresses two gaps in the research literature. First, it provides a temporal perspective by analysing intra‐European tertiary student exchange in three subperiods, within the time frame of 1998–2012, captu…
Coming and Going in Slovakia: International Labour Mobility in the Central European ‘Buffer Zone
The collision between economic systems after 1989 led to significant new forms of mobility. East Central Europe became a legally and institutionally constructed ‘buffer zone’ between Western Europe and the CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States—the former USSR. The opportunities for and costs of migration in the buffer zone were shaped by the ‘double territorial shock’ of the transition: reinterationalisation and the withdrawal of massive state …
Tourism and Regional Development in the Slovak Republic
Regional Development During Economic Transition: A Case Study of the Slovak Republic
Five years of economic transition in Slovak tourism: Successes and shortcomings
The Wild East'? Capital Markets in the V4 Countries
Japanese tourists in transition countries of Central Europe: Present behaviour and future trends
The EU and Central Europe: The Remaking of Economic Relationships
The reconstruction of economic relationships between Central Europe and the EU since 1989 has involved a major redrawing of the economic map of Europe. This paper investigates these relationships in the case of the V4 countries, disaggregating, wherever possible, the Czech and Slovak components of Czechoslovakia – prior to the ‘Velvet Divorce’. The analysis considers four main axes of change: stabilisation and privatisation, the reinternationalis…
Tourism in Transition: Economic Change in Central Europe
Since 1989, Central and Eastern European economies have undergone a transition from highly centralized state socialism to market economies. This text analyzes the changing role of tourism throughout this process of transformation in Czechoslovakia and in the two independent Czech and Slovak Republics which emerged in 1993. Williams (Exeter) and Balaz (Bratislava) discuss the roles of interventionism, internationalization, and privatization in thi…
Privatisation and the Development of Tourism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Property Rights, Firm Performance, and Recombinant Property
Privatisation is one of the key elements of the package of neoliberal reforms in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe which collectively constitute the 'sharp shock' strategy. In this, privatisation is ascribed the role of redistributing and clarifying property rights, which is an assumed precondition for efficiency improvements in individual firms. In practice, the transformation is characterised by path dependency, cultural an…
From collective provision to commodification of tourism
Coming and Going in Slovakia: International Labour Mobility in the Central European ‘Buffer Zone
The collision between economic systems after 1989 led to significant new forms of mobility. East Central Europe became a legally and institutionally constructed ‘buffer zone’ between Western Europe and the CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States—the former USSR. The opportunities for and costs of migration in the buffer zone were shaped by the ‘double territorial shock’ of the transition: reinterationalisation and the withdrawal of massive state …
Trans-border population mobility at a European crossroads: Slovakia in the shadow of EU accession
The proposed enlargement of the European Union has focused attention on the implications for both those who do and those who do not become members in the 'first wave'. While discussions have largely centred on labour migration there are complex forms of mobility across different boundaries. This is illustrated through a case study of trans-border mobility between Slovakia and neighbouring countries in the EU, Central Eastern Europe, and the CIS. …
International Petty Trading: Changing Practices in Trans-Carpathian Ukraine
The opening of borders in eastern Europe, accompanied by partial re-regulation and institutionalization of markets, created exceptional conditions for arbitrage in the form of cross-border trading. Whilst there is evidence that this is in decline in Central Eastern Europe, because of developments in the formal retail sector and convergence in trading and consumption, it persists as a significant alternative economic site in many other parts of ea…
Been there, done that’: International student migration and human capital transfers from the UK to Slovakia
International student migration remains an under‐researched field in migration studies, and this is especially true of return migration. This paper analyses students from Slovakia who have studied in the UK, both on degree courses and language/vocational courses, and have subsequently returned to their country of origin. It analyses their motivations, their acquisition of human capital in the UK, and the extent to which they have been able to rea…
International Labour Mobility and Uneven Regional Development in Europe: Human Capital, Knowledge and Entrepreneurship
Economic geographers have tended to neglect human mobility, and yet international labour migration constitutes significant flows that shape and are shaped by institutionally specific economic spaces. Three underlying themes run through the paper. First, the role of social networks in mediating relationships between flows and spaces. Second, the recomposition of the spatiality and temporality of flows in response to Europeanization and globalizati…
Temporary versus Permanent Youth Brain Drain: Economic Implications
Existing high levels of temporary migration between Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union (EU) have highlighted a number of concerns relating to the eastern enlargement of the Union. While much of the debate has focused on the destinations, we use Slovakia as a case study to explore economic implications for the countries of origin of highly skilled migrants. First, the paper examines estimates of the scale of “youth brain migration”,…
From Private to Public Sphere, the Commodification of the Au Pair Experience? Returned Migrants from Slovakia to the UK
This paper explores three aspects of the au pair migration experience, through a case study of Slovakians, mostly but not all women, who have returned from sojourns in the United Kingdom. First, it argues that au pairs are distinctive from other migrants working in domestic service. Their positions have to be understood in terms of a particular regulatory framework, temporal restrictions, living-in conditions, and the blurring of rights and respo…
What Human Capital, Which Migrants? Returned Skilled Migration to Slovakia from the UK
This article contributes to the understanding of skilled labor migration by exploring some of the differences in the economic behavior of three contrasting groups of returned skilled labor migrants from Slovakia to the United Kingdom: professionals and managers; students; and au pairs. Formal professional experiences and training provide only limited understanding of the value of working/studying abroad. Instead, there is a need to look at partic…
Innovation policy in the Slovak republic
Slovakia ranked to the poorest innovation performers in the EU 25 area in early 2000s. While the country's economics was booming due to high influx of foreign investment, there was real danger that Slovakia would convert to the "greatest assembly line" in Europe, with little own innovation efforts employed in production. Poor innovation performance of Slovakia was given by an ineffective national innovation system and inadequate innovation polici…
Winning, then Losing, the Battle with Globalization: Vietnamese Petty Traders in Slovakia
This article addresses the remarkable growth of Vietnamese market trading in Central and Eastern Europe, notably Slovakia, in the early 1990s, and its subsequent decline. The literature on ethnic entrepreneurship and cross-border petty trading provides partial insights into this phenomenon, but fails to explain the levels of concentration of the Vietnamese in market trading, or the rapid changes in this sector. We therefore conceptualize them as …
Political economy of the slovak capitalism from perspective of the institutional and evolutionary economics
The introductory parts of the paper analyse development of a local variety of capitalism in Slovakia from the institutional and evolutionary perspective. In early transition period privatisation policies were aimed at development of a liberal version of capitalism, based on fluid capital markets. These policies were confronted with institutional legacies of previous regimes. Privatisation, however, had major impact on structure of capital ownersh…
Path‐dependency and Path‐creation Perspectives on Migration Trajectories: The Economic Experiences of Vietnamese Migrants in Slovakia 1
There has been only limited research on the Vietnamese diaspora, and that has mostly focussed on Western market economies. This paper explores the distinctive migration, dictated by Cold War geopolitics, from Viet Nam to the Eastern bloc countries. It examines how the intersection of migration policies and politico‐economic conditions, before and after the end of state socialism in 1989, produced two distinctive migration phases. Faced with econo…
Low-Cost Carriers, Economies of Flows and Regional Externalities
Williams A. M. and Baláž V. Low-cost carriers, economies of flows and regional externalities, Regional Studies. The emergence of low-cost carriers, following air travel re-regulation in Europe, has major implications for individual firms and regional economies. Understanding regions as ‘economies of flows’, the paper explores, largely conceptually, how uneven, fluctuating, and fragmentary changes in air travel and connectivity, resulting from the…
International return mobility, learning and knowledge transfer: A case study of Slovak doctors
Migration, Risk, and Uncertainty: Theoretical Perspectives
Risk shapes, and is shaped by, migration: although widely acknowledged, this is unevenly, and mostly only implicitly, theorised and analysed. Starting from the distinction between risk and uncertainty, the paper contrasts the different approaches of economics and sociology to theorising risk, in terms of scale, social constructionism, and being informed by risk as opposed to being at risk. It reviews the extent to which six theoretical approaches…
Risk attitudes and migration experience
Although risk and uncertainty are intrinsic to human migration, there is surprisingly little explicit research on the willingness to take risks in this context. This paper analyses whether migrants are more or less likely than non‐migrants to be risk tolerant, and whether these differences are gendered. Attitudes are explored in terms of responses under conditions of both risk and uncertainty, and self‐assessment of capabilities is also taken int…
Economics (38 works) · Political science (27 works) · Geography (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (17 works) · Business (14 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Economy (12 works) · Tourism (12 works) · Economic geography (10 works)