Measuring population mobility speed from space

Souknilanh Keola and Kumagai Satoru

No 574, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: Ad-hoc population dynamics in Krugman’s type core and periphery models adjust population share of a region, based on its real wage rate deviation from national average, at pre-specified speed of population mobility. Whereas speed of population mobility is expected to be different across countries, for geographical, cultural, technological, etc. reasons, one common speed is often applied in theoretical and simulation analysis, due to spatially patchy, and temporally infrequent, availability of sub-national regional data. This article demonstrates how, increasingly available, high definition spatio-temporal remote-sensing data, and their by-products, can be used to measure speed of population mobility in national and sub-national level.

Keywords: Southeast Asia; Population; Migration; Population movement; Regional data; Regional migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R10 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-mig, nep-sea and nep-ure
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