Migration and regional science: opportunities and challenges in a changing environment

Newbold, K. Bruce

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“…1 Historically, internal migration has also been central to economic growth by reallocating rural labor to support the expansion of the urban manufacturing sector (Lewis, 1954). Yet the extant literature still largely fails to differentiate among migrants, despite drastically varied motives and skills (Rogerson, 1990;Newbold, 2001Newbold, , 2012. The profile of internal migrants is of particular concern to the Pakistani government, given objectives to shift production away from resource-based exports to manufacturing-based exports (News, 2017).…”

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Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability‐search cost dynamics

Chen

Kosec

Mueller

2019

Review Development Economics

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We integrate two workhorses of the labor literature, the Roy and search models, to illustrate the implications of migration duration-specifically, whether it is temporary or permanent-for patterns of selection. Consistent with our stylized model, we show that temporary migrants are intermediately selected on education, with weaker selection on cognitive ability. In contrast, permanent migration is associated with strong positive selection on both education and ability, as it involves finer employee-employer matching and offers greater returns to experience. Networks are also more valuable for permanent migration, where search costs are higher. Labor market frictions explain observed network-skill interactions. K E Y W O R D S migration, networks, Pakistan, self-selection J E L C L A S S I F I C A T I O N J61; O15

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Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability‐search cost dynamics

Chen

Kosec

Mueller

2019

Review Development Economics

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“…These average nominal gains are then used to explain continuing migration up the urban hierarchy and especially to larger cities. The conceptualisation is a mainstay of research and policymaking by those who treat the decision to move from one labour market to another as primarily a human capital investment (Nakosteen & Westerlund, ; Newbold, ; Grogger & Hanson, ; Sjaastad, ). The conceptualisation is also used to explain international migration where the models invoke the fundamental assumption that a potential migrant's decision to relocate across national boundaries depends on international differences in the returns to labour, adjusted for the costs of migration.…”

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Extending the human capital model of migration: The role of risk, place, and social capital in the migration decision

Clark

Lisowski

2019

Population Space and Place

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Migration is both an economic and an emotional decision; it breaks ties and requires a fundamental commitment to changed workplaces, new social networks and relationships, and new residential environments. Although economic returns matter in the decision to move, it is clear from survey studies that many moves are more complex than those built around market incentives alone. To explore the decision‐making underlying mobility and to evaluate why some decisions are deferred, we explore the ideas of prospect theory, endowment effects, and social capital as new ways to understand the decision‐making process about migrating. Often, the focus on migration passes over the associated and important question of when and why individuals and families do not move. By considering the intersecting roles of risk aversion, place attachment, and social capital, we can use these ideas to model the decision to move and show that both endowment and social capital play important roles in the migratory decision. Our findings extend previous research by incorporating both endowment and social capital in the models of migration.

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“…Cushing and Poot 2004;Faggian et al in press). In addition, most empirical work has tended to conceive the various forms of spatial mobility as discrete alternatives and to focus on the study of its dynamic structure adopting a cross sectional perspective, firmly rooted in neoclassical economic theory (White and Lindstrom 2005;Shen 2012;Newbold 2012). As a consequence, analyses have tended to overlook the interdependence between the various forms of spatial mobility and the context within which they take place, with little empirical analysis in developing countries.…”

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“…This lack of attention is unfortunate because the evolution of human mobility is thought to be associated with the level and trajectory of national development, and is envisaged to differ across countries according to their broad stage of development, while recognising that individual pathways of development are unique (Skeldon 1997;UN 2009b). Moreover, despite the longstanding recognition of the interaction between of the various forms of spatial labour mobility and their temporally dynamic structures, most quantitative work has studied these spatial processes in isolation from each other, adopting a static cross-sectional approach to examine their changing structure (White and Lindstrom 2005;Newbold 2012). As a result, empirical analyses have tended to neglect the interdependence between the various modes of spatial labour mobility and the environments within which they take place, with little evidence taken from less developed countries.…”

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Spatial labour mobility in a transition economy: Migration and commuting in Chile

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Spatial mobility is widely recognised as an integral component of national development. According to transition theory, as countries modernise and become globally connected, the intensity, forms and patterns of mobility evolve, reshaping activity networks and human settlement. Mobility transitions commonly occur over extended timeframes but can also be triggered by rapid transformations in the national context. Chile provides an ideal exemplar. Over the last four decades, it transitioned from a closed, centrally-planned economy with a socialist government to a globally integrated, market-driven system under military and democratic regimes. This has significantly transformed Chile's space economy. While prior research has explored particular facets of the mobility accompanying these shifts, no concerted attempt has been made to systematically trace the evolution of mobility in Chile and its connections to the socio-economic and political context.Chile provides a unique setting to explore these connections. It has a unique geography, settlement pattern and resource endowment; it displays levels of internal migration well above those in most parts of the world; and it has a small foreign-born population, so that unlike many other high mobility countries, internal mobility can be explored practically free from the complicating component of international migration. Chile also has the advantage of high quality migration data spanning the period in which the major socio-economic transition occurred.This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of labour mobility in Chile by exploring connections between various forms and dimensions of mobility and the sequence of changes experienced by the country during its transition to a market-driven economy. To this end, it considers internal migration and long-distance commuting between thirteen Chilean regions, and focuses on three key dimensions: their intensity, spatial patterns and composition.It also aims to determine the role of migration and commuting in meeting shifts in labour demand. These objectives are embedded in a temporal framework that traces the changing environment within which mobility unfolds and seeks to provide robust statistical evidence on its links with structural changes in the national context. The methodological framework blends mobility transition theory derived from Zelinsky (1971) with a suite of cutting-edge statistical techniques. To implement this framework, the thesis couples a carefully-constructed historical framework with a purpose-built database, assembled by harmonising data from three consecutive censuses (1982, 1992 and 2002), which provides five-year snapshots of migration covering the periods 1977-82, 1987-92 and 1997-02, together with data on commuting in 2002.As in Australia, the US and the UK, the analysis reveals that both the intensity and the spatial impact of labour migration in Chile declined over the period of analysis, with the most marked reduction occurring in the spatial impact of migratio...

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Migration and regional science: opportunities and challenges in a changing environment

Cited by 11 publications

References 63 publications

Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability‐search cost dynamics

Temporary and permanent migrant selection: Theory and evidence of ability‐search cost dynamics

Extending the human capital model of migration: The role of risk, place, and social capital in the migration decision

Spatial labour mobility in a transition economy: Migration and commuting in Chile

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