The emergence of low cost carriers, following air travel reregulation in Europe, has significant implications for individual firms and regions understood as 'economies of flows'. This paper explores, largely conceptually, how uneven, fluctuating and fragmentary changes in air travel and connectivity, resulting from the activities of low cost carriers, have had substantial impacts on flows of labour migrants, knowledge, business connectivity/ investment, and mobile markets, especially tourism. The resulting mediation of regional externalities and institutions result in changes in the transaction costs of individual firms, regional performance, and the unfolding and increasingly interconnected map of uneven regional development in Europe.
1. Introduction -- 2. From the (neo)classical approach to prospect theory -- 3. Behavioural economics approaches -- 4. Risk and complexity : decision making under different information conditions -- 5. Households, risk diversification and migration -- 6. Constructionist approaches : culture, identities and risk -- 7. The role of networks and intermediaries in mediating risk -- 8. Migration, society, technology and the "risk society" -- 9. Migration discourses in the face of risk -- 10. Engaging with risk in migration policies.
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In: Journal of risk research: the official journal of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe and the Society for Risk Analysis Japan, Volume 14, Issue 5, p. 583-596
Das Heft beschäftigt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit Problemen der Ost-West-Wanderung im Rahmen der EU-Erweiterung: Adrian Favell and Randall Hansen: Markets against Politics: migration, EU enlargement and the idea of Europe; Claire Wallace: Opening and closing borders: migration and mobility in East-Central Europe; Marek Kupiszewski: How trustworthy are forecasts of international migration between Poland and the European Union?; Allan M. Williams and Vladimir Balaz: Trans-border Population mobility at a European crossroads: Slovakia in the shadow of EU accession; Valsamis Mitsilegas: The implementation of the EU acquis an illegal Immigration by the candidate countries of Central and contradictions; Elena Jileva: Visa and free movement of labour: the uneven imposition of the EU acquis on the accession states; Sandra Lavenex: EU enlargement and the challenge of policy transfer: the case of refugee policy; Georg Menz: Patterns in EU labour Immigration policy: national initiatives and European responses. (IAB2)