Inter-regional Migration: The UK experience

Tapan Biswas, Jolian McHardy and Michael Nolan

No 2008003, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper looks at the scenario of intra-UK migration amongst its four regions. The level of intra-UK migration is significant and is increasing over time. Using several measures of the balance in migration we observe that, broadly speaking, the balance is improving. We also examine the impact of changes in the regional per capita GDPs and unemployment levels on regional migration using panel analysis. Several authors find these to be significant factors in international migration. However, it seems that neither regional per capita GDP nor the unemployment level has a significant effect on regional migration in the UK (although the regression coefficients have the correct signs). In the case of regional migration in the UK, it is other characteristics of the source and destination regions which appear to matter most.

Keywords: Inter-Regional Migration; UK (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2008-02, Revised 2008-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo and nep-mig
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