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Interregional Migration (interregional + migration)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	75%

Selected Abstracts

Gains and losses, outcomes of interregional migration in the five Nordic countries

GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 1 2006
Emma Lundholm
Abstract This paper examines the outcome of interregional migration in various aspects from the migrants' perspective. It is based on a survey, including 6 000 interregional migrants in the five Nordic countries. The results indicate that interregional migration leads to a positive outcome for most migrants and few people seem to be forced to make decisions including painful tradeoffs. Motives have an effect on what aspects of outcome migrants are satisfied with. The influence of individual migrants' characteristics on migration outcome revealed few significant effects. Migrants claimed to be most satisfied with living conditions and less satisfied with the livelihood after moving. To be satisfied with social conditions turned out to be crucially important for the general outcome of migration. [source]

Wage Formation, Regional Migration and Local Labour Market Tightness,

OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 4 2006
Fredrik Carlsen
Abstract Empirical studies of regional wage formation and interregional migration routinely include the regional unemployment rate as indicator of local labour market tightness. However, these studies are usually motivated by economic theories that emphasize transition probabilities between unemployment and employment, and the unemployment rate is an imperfect proxy for these probabilities. We use a large micro data set to compute estimates of the rate of outflow from unemployment for 90 Norwegian travel-to-work areas. The outflow rates perform better than traditional measures of regional labour market tightness in panel data analyses of regional wages and interregional migration. [source]

Examining geographic and occupational mobility: A loglinear modelling approach

PAPERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 4 2006
Ge Lin
Geographic mobility; occupational mobility; loglinear model; census data Abstract., This article attempts to develop a set of loglinear models that synthesise gravity models of interregional mobility and loglinear models of occupational mobility. The development of the model is progressed from a simple two-way mobility table analysis to a three-way analysis that controls for one aspect of mobility while investigating another and eventually to a four-way analysis that simultaneously assesses the joint effect of occupational and geographic mobility. An example based on data from the 1970 United States census demonstrates that the models can effectively capture the joint effect of occupational and geographic mobility. The results show that interregional movers may not necessarily have strong occupational persistence. With regard to female dominated clerical occupations, interregional migration is positively associated with upward occupational mobility, and the propensity for upward mobility was consistently greater for males than for females. [source]