Internal migration and employment: Macro flows and micro motives

"Empirical support for models of internal labour migration are usually based on observed patterns of net flows into local labour markets with relatively low unemployment and relatively high real wages. The inference drawn from such evidence is that internal migrants move to enhance returns to t...

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Published in:Environment and planning. A 2011-08, Vol.43 (8), p.1948-1964
Main Authors: Morrison, Philip S, Clark, William A. V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arbeitslosigkeit
Arbeitsmarktchance
Arbeitsplatzwechsel
Ausbildung
Berufswechsel
Bgi / Prodig
Bildungsmobilität
Binnenwanderung
Demografischer Faktor
Einkommensunterschied
Erwerbstätiger
Geschlechtsspezifik
Human geography
Kosten
Lohnhöhe
Migration
Migrations
Motivation
Neuseeland
Population geography and social geography
Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt
Risikobereitschaft
Soziale Situation
Wohnen
Wohnsituation
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Summary:"Empirical support for models of internal labour migration are usually based on observed patterns of net flows into local labour markets with relatively low unemployment and relatively high real wages. The inference drawn from such evidence is that internal migrants move to enhance returns to their labour. However, major surveys in the USA (Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the Current Population Survey), the UK (British Household Panel Survey) and Australia (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) all show that less than a third of internal migrants are motivated primarily by employment reasons. This paper explores this apparent disconnect between net flows and motives using the Survey of Dynamics of Motivation and Migration, which has recorded in detail the reasons why over 6000 individuals moved within New Zealand over the two-year period 2005 and 2006. The survey confirms that only a minority of working-age migrants move between local labour markets primarily for employment reasons. Far from increasing returns to their employment, most migrants do not experience a rise in income or believe their employment prospects improved as a result of their move. Rather than being motivated by having their employment enhanced by internal migration, the majority of internal migrants of working age appear to be motivated by other goals. Employment remains important, but in most cases only insofar as the new destination enables its continuity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2005 bis 2006.
ISSN:0308-518X
1472-3409
DOI:10.1068/a43531