The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach

Martyn J. Andrews (), Ken Clark and William Whittaker
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Martyn J. Andrews: University of Manchester

No 3783, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find considerable duration dependence in region of residence in the raw data, most but not all of which disappears when controlling for observable and unobservable differences between individuals. Older workers are less likely to switch region while the better educated are more mobile. There are also some differences between males and females in their likelihood to migrate.

Keywords: migration; duration; regional labour markets; panel data; hazard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C23 C41 J24 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2008-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2011, 174(1), 127-153.

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