Slats, Paulina (2020) Migrants as silver lining around greying Fryslân? Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Friesland has faced demographic challenges of population decline in both general and cohort-specific terms due to ageing and out-migration of younger age-cohorts. This is prognosed to continue. That makes population ageing and its consequences for the vitality of local facilities a contemporary problem: especially in rural areas. Local facilites find importance for village's liveability and less-mobile groups who rely on those. Expenditure determines the vitality of commercial facilities. People can be grouped after similar (demographic) characteristics, exhibiting similar consumption patterns: in terms of monetary quantity, type of product or service and location. Expenditure on local scale was therefore expected to vary intercategorical. Migrants could hold a crucial, providing position in sustaining facilities, based on their demographic characteristics and by influencing an area's population composition. A case study in the rural village Balk (N=500) was carried out to research the influence of migration and several other demographic factors, and the share of total expenditure on local scale. Migration possessed significant crude results on local consumption, yet the nett effect of migration was mitigated by confounding variables. Age, educational level and household size and composition are larger nett predictors in explaining the share of expenditure on local scale. Mobility and local networks also play a role. It is therefore recommended that policies should aim on targeting younger and higher education inhabitants to consume locally as they (are in the position to) spend more. These groups, including migrants, should be attracted and kept in Friesland as they have a large potential to benefit local facilities.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Remund, A.P.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2020 10:19 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2020 10:19 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3272 |
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