articles: Voting with your feet in the United Kingdom: Using cross-migration rates to estimate relative living standards

Howard Wall

Papers in Regional Science, 2001, vol. 80, issue 1, 1-23

Abstract: This article reexamines and extends the literature on the use of migration rates to estimate compensating differentials as measures of regional quality of life. I estimate an interregional migration regression for the UK and use the results to measure regional quality of life and standard of living. The results suggest a North-South divide within England, and that Scotland and Wales have relatively high levels of both. The results also lead to a rejection of regional standard-of-living e quivalence (long-run regional equilibrium) in the UK.

Keywords: Interregional migration; standard of living; quality of life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01-16
Note: Received: August 1998
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