Myths can be part of the established narratives tourist destinations: they offer a perspective on reality that may alter it but makes also more insightful by highlighting its inner contradictions and idiosyncrasies challenging universal values underlying it. This altered place ensures visitors will feel touched myth connected to place, itself retold. In this paper, we discuss how have narrative...

OBJECTIVE To report on doctors' early choices of specialty at selected intervals after qualification, and eventual career destinations. DESIGN Questionnaire surveys. SETTING United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Total of 15 759 doctors who qualified in 1974, 1977, 1983, 1993, and 1996, and their career destinations 10 years after graduation. RESULTS 15 759 doctors were surveyed one and three yea...

The study uses a spatial gravity model with spatial dependence in the bilateral flows between origins and destinations. This is important for policy because it underscores the futility of parochial policy targeting in the presence of spatial spillover. Traditionally, it has been assumed that only developments in the origins and destinations affect the magnitude of migration between them. In the...

This article examines the impact of social origin on tertiary graduates’ labour market outcomes in Germany and the United Kingdom, two distinct countries in terms of higher education systems, labour market structures, and their linkages. Data from the 2005 REFLEX survey, OLS regression and linear probability models are used to analyse the effect of parental education on graduates’ occupational ...

Whether immigration increases crime has long been a source of political debate and scholarly interest. Despite widespread public opinion to the contrary, the weight of evidence suggests the most recent wave of U.S. immigration has not increased crime, and may have actually helped reduce criminal violence. However, with recent shifts in immigrant settlement patterns away from traditional receivi...

BACKGROUND Walking for transport can contribute to the accrual of health-enhancing levels of physical activity in elders. Identifying destinations and environmental conditions that facilitate this type of walking has public health significance. However, most findings are limited to Western, low-density locations, while a larger proportion of the global population resides in ultra-dense Asian me...