Restructuring of rural Sweden – Employment transition and out-migration of three cohorts born 1945–1980

Hedlund, Martin; Lundholm, Emma

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.10.006

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“…In order to assess the social and economic transformation, as well as the social and economic costs of local deindustrialisation, the local official statistical data provided by the National Institute of Statistics, Romania (NIS 2013, Romania) were helpful in analysing these economic changes. Consequently, reference was made to local rural changes analysis through longitudinal statistical data (Hedlund and Lundholm 2015) related to investigated sites, which had been available since 1990 through to 2014. Indeed, these data were helpful in highlighting the Romanian rural post-socialist changes framed by rigorously studied ethnographic case studies (McKee 2015).…”

Section: Study Area Data Materials and Methodological Flowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the process appears as a 'loss of manufacturing activity and related employment in a traditional manufacturing region' (Norton 2004). The decline of manufacturing production was also a key force in the contemporary rural change (Hedlund and Lundholm 2015) with deindustrialisation being 'a major challenge for the new independent states' (Pacione 2009, p. 111). Against such a theoretical backdrop, Romania fit with these changes, its deindustrialisation complying with the strong failure of state-socialist industrial production and with the bankruptcy of the former state-socialist industrial manufacturers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Long-term rural change through the lens of statistical data, spatial rural restructuring and the outcomes of manufacturing decline, has been a key feature of recent rural spatial shifts. Hedlund and Lundholm (2015) considered assessing the spatial results of post-socialist transition associated with the global economic changes that shifted the contemporary human settlements (see Paddison and Hutton 2015). This paper aims to assess the post-socialist rural formation, and consider the importance of the Romanian rural habitats.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From State-Socialist Ambitions of Romanian Rural Indutrialisation to Post-Socialist Rural Deindutrialisation: Two Case Studies From Romania

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The post-socialist changes in Romania's communities profoundly changed the rural settlements with similar, contrasting and tensioned trends in the local rural development. The purpose of this study is to focus on the post-socialist rural dereliction. The paper unveils the post-socialist rural transformation in Romania, from the state-socialist interventions in rural industrialisation, to the post-socialist rural identity formation, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. During this process, two sampled case studies were thoroughly analysed, namely the Tomeşti and Margina communes -two rural settlements intensely industrialised under the former state-socialist political regime and with multiple consequences during the post-90s period in their local development. According to recent theories on economic changes reflected in local rural spatial development, 166Ioan Sebastian Jucu the idea of rural dereliction remains peripheral and, at the same time, a hot-spot issue in the contemporary research on rural restructuring. In addition, recent theories on social and economic changes provide useful frameworks in studying the production of rural ruins. With post-socialist deindustrialisation, and under new post-90 capitalist rules in local rural development, rural communities faced multiple problems in creating their own post-socialist identity. Accordingly, this study highlights the local problems of rural deindustrialisation in the inner rural pattern of the investigated sites. While some rural communities embrace slow rural spatial regeneration trends, others remain ruined, marginalised and declined. The findings of the study confirm the presence of derelict abandoned places, thus highlighting the need for further proper interventions in local rural development, and for further fertile scientific dialogues to promote suitable strategies in Romanian rural regeneration on the local scale.

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“…Mechanization and rationalization in agriculture and forestry over several decades have led to fewer jobs in the primary sector (Hedlund and Lundholm 2015;Ž ivojinović et al 2015). This is associated with a reduction in NIPF owners' relative dependence on the forest as a source of livelihood in terms of both labour and capital income (Ziegenspeck et al 2004;Wiersum et al 2005;Lien et al 2007).…”

Section: Literature Review: Society and Forest Ownership In Transitiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has also been argued that NIPF owners who are focused on non-economic aspects of forest management and who are not financially dependent on forest-related income are becoming more numerous (Boon et al 2004;Urquhart and Courtney 2011). A lack of job opportunities and a narrow labour market in rural areas have also contributed to a steady out-migration to urban areas, leaving the rural areas with a declining population (Hedlund and Lundholm 2015). Moreover, personal and lifestyle-oriented preferences have become important motives for migration (Fielding 1989;Lundholm 2007;Thissen et al 2010).…”

Section: Literature Review: Society and Forest Ownership In Transitiomentioning

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New Forest Owners: Change and Continuity in the Characteristics of Swedish Non-industrial Private Forest Owners (NIPF Owners) 1990–2010

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Karlsson

Westin

2016

Small-scale Forestry

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This paper presents a total survey of the characteristics and changes over time within the entire population of Swedish non-industrial private forest owners (NIPF owners). By charting the changed demographic, socio-economic and geographic profile of the NIPF owners, it also provides a baseline for a discussion and analysis of potential implications for forest management, policy and values. NIPF owners differ in important ways from the general population of Sweden. However, the gap has narrowed over time with regard to, e.g., educational level and sex composition. The ongoing urbanization process is evident in the growing share of non-residential NIPF owners who live at a distance from their forest property and who differ from their residential (rural) peers through, e.g., higher education, higher income and a higher prevalence of co-ownership of their forest holdings. Although these changes might translate into updated views on forest values among NIPF owners, there could be a delay before this impacts on forest management practices and output.

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Better off in the city? Economic outcomes of rural out‐migration in Sweden—sibling study of cohorts 1960–1984

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Junkka

2024

Population Space and Place

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This study examines disparities in income levels and employment status between individuals who migrate from rural areas and their siblings who remained in rural settings in Sweden for cohorts born 1960–1984. Utilizing comprehensive Swedish register data, we track the economic outcomes at age 35 or rural residents who migrated between ages 15 and 25, comparing them to non‐migrating siblings. Our analysis, employing binomial logit and log‐linear models for employment odds and income levels, respectively, reveals that while rural out‐migration generally leads to higher income, it does not significantly impact employment status. The study underscores the role of individual and family‐specific factors—such as gender and education—and broader time‐ and place‐dependent structures in mediating migration's effects. We find that income disparity between migrants and non‐migrants has increased since the 1990s and that the differences increase with the urbanization level of the destination.

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Restructuring of rural Sweden – Employment transition and out-migration of three cohorts born 1945–1980

Cited by 99 publications

References 20 publications

From State-Socialist Ambitions of Romanian Rural Indutrialisation to Post-Socialist Rural Deindutrialisation: Two Case Studies From Romania

From State-Socialist Ambitions of Romanian Rural Indutrialisation to Post-Socialist Rural Deindutrialisation: Two Case Studies From Romania

New Forest Owners: Change and Continuity in the Characteristics of Swedish Non-industrial Private Forest Owners (NIPF Owners) 1990–2010

Better off in the city? Economic outcomes of rural out‐migration in Sweden—sibling study of cohorts 1960–1984

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