The determinants of regional migration in Great Britain: A duration approach

Martyn Andrews; Ken Clark; William Whittaker

doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00656.x

The determinants of regional migration in Great Britain: A duration approach

Martyn Andrews, Ken Clark, William Whittaker

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Summary. Using the British Household Panel Survey 1990-2007, 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, much of which disappears when controlling for observable and unobservable differences between individuals. We illustrate that the usual way of modelling the effect of regional variables on the propensity to migrate gives insignificant and unrobust results and we introduce a new competing risks technique. © 2011 Royal Statistical Society.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	127-153
Number of pages	26
Journal	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society
Volume	174
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00656.x
Publication status	Published - Jan 2011

Keywords

Duration
Hazard
Migration
Panel data
Regional labour markets

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