Regional Income Growth and Net Migration in Sweden, 1970‐1995

Aronsson, Thomas; Lundberg, Johan; Wikström, Magnus

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“…Therefore, a utility maximizing individual will supply more labor into the market with the higher wage. Aronsson, et al (2001) find support for this theory when analyzing Swedish migration from 1970 to 1995. They conclude that regions with higher initial levels of average income have a lower growth rate of income that regions with low initial levels, and that the convergence is partly due to labor mobility between regions.…”

Section: Classical Competitive Model Of Labor Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 72%

“…Long (1973) finds that "men, age 25-29, who went to graduate school are three times as likely to move between states during a year's time as men who did not finish high school." 46 In a study of Swedish net migration, Aronsson et al (2001) conclude that the "the initial endowment of human capital (as measured by the percentage of the population with a degree from higher education) tends to increase the net migration rate." 47 Similarly, Ahn et al (1999) conclude that migration willingness increases with education level.…”

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Proliferation concerns in the Russian closed nuclear weapons complex cities : a study of regional migration behavior.

Flores¹

2004

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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the legacy of the USSR weapons complex with an estimated 50 nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons cities containing facilities responsible for research, production, maintenance, and destruction of the weapons stockpile. The Russian Federation acquired ten such previously secret, closed nuclear weapons complex cities. Unfortunately, a lack of government funding to support these facilities resulted in non-payment of salaries to employees and even plant closures, which led to an international fear of weapons material and knowledge proliferation.This dissertation analyzes migration in 33 regions of the Russian Federation, six of which contain the ten closed nuclear weapons complex cities. This study finds that the presence of a closed nuclear city does not significantly influence migration. However, the factors that do influence migration are statistically different in regions containing closed nuclear cities compared to regions without closed nuclear cities. Further, these results show that the net rate of migration has changed across the years since the break up of the Soviet Union, and that the push and pull factors for migration have changed across time. Specifically, personal and residential factors had a significant impact on migration immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union, but economic infrastructure and societal factors became significant in later years. Two significant policy conclusions are derived from this research. First, higher levels of income are found to increase outmigration from regions, implying that programs designed to prevent migration by increasing incomes for closed city residents may be counter-productive. Second, this study finds that programs designed to increase capital and build infrastructure in the new Russian Federation will be more effective for employing scientists and engineers from the weapons complex, and consequently reduce the potential for emigration of potential Despite the political difficulties and rapidly slowing economy after the Soviet collapse, the Russian government managed to find resources to keep the large weapons complex operational. However, the situation was tenuous, to say the least. Payment of salaries to workers became erratic, long-standing research teams were dissolved, and many laboratories were closed. Anxiety and fear spread as the world became aware of the unemployment status of so many thousands of expert weapons scientists and engineers throughout the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the Former Soviet Union.To better understand this concern, it is necessary to understand the birth and growth of the Soviet military complex, specifically the cities and production facilities of the weapons complex. Ten Previously Closed Nuclear Weapons FacilitiesRussia's ten closed nuclear cities were created for the sole purpose of supporting nuclear weapons production and research, and to provide a livelihood for the families of facility employees. 8 Figure 1 below provides a map of the te...

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Section: Classical Competitive Model Of Labor Mobilitymentioning

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Section: Educationmentioning

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Proliferation concerns in the Russian closed nuclear weapons complex cities : a study of regional migration behavior.

Flores¹

2004

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“…This finding clearly suggests that (crossmunicipality-border) spill-over effects are also important for local per-capita income growth (see also, for example, ARONSSON et al, 2001). 22 The latter may be indicative of the fact that at least some high-income migrants (as well as high-income non-migrants) are maximizing their location utility by balancing between the demand for service amenities, largely found in the regional urban centres, and preferences for open space, residential property on large lots, and 'small-town values', associated with the lower-density, exurban or rural-urban areas.…”

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“…A large body of literature has debated the relative importance of economic/job opportunities versus local amenities as determinants of migration, and ample empirical evidence seems to support both perspectives (e.g., PORELL, 1982;MUESER and GRAVES, 1995). In contrast, relatively little has been published in the regional-science literature regarding the consequences of migration, in terms of, for example, per-capita incomes in the destination areas (e.g., GREENWOOD, 1985;PLANE and BITTER, 1997;ARONSSON et al, 2001;CUSHING and POOT, 2004). In the present paper, we present an empirical study of the effect of population movements on the re-distribution of per-capita disposable incomes in a region, and investigate whether there is some linkage with the spatial distribution of local amenities and other quality-of-life factors (e.g., MARGO, 1992;CROMARTIE and NORD, 1997;PLANE, 1999;SHUMWAY and OTTERSTROM, 2001).…”

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“…Whilst in the migration literature it is common practice to confine these factors to a single attribute or an ad-hoc list of selected attributes, mostly related to climate and other environmental factors (see, for example, DELLER et al, 2001;ARONSSON et al, 2001), we prefer to (implicitly) include unit-specific dummies in the model to capture unobserved local factors, and impose some spatial structure on their effects, as will be explained shortly. After all, climate evidently does not play a role in the present context, whilst proximity to service amenities and other quality-of-life factors (e.g., landscape features, quietness, etc.…”

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Selective In-migration and Income Convergence and Divergence across Belgian Municipalities

Peeters¹

2008

Regional Studies

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In this paper, we present an empirical study of the relationship between aggregate migration and the income distribution across locations in a region. We use cross-sectional data on growth of per-capita taxable incomes, over the period 1991-2000, from the municipalities of the Belgian province of Limburg. We use a non-standard -convergence framework, built on the notion of 'weak absolute convergence', to test the hypothesis of selective income migration. The model we develop allows us to separate out observed and unobserved heterogeneity in convergence rates. Observed heterogeneity is incorporated by including net in-migration and initial-education variables. Unobserved heterogeneity is related to amenity differentials across locations. The model is estimated by using the generalized maximum entropy method, which allows for the 'non-parametric' estimation of the effects of the unobserved factors. While we find an average -convergence rate of about 4.2% annually, the heterogeneity in -convergence rates is consistent with an increasing dispersion ( -divergence) of income levels, due to selective in-migration. Our empirical evidence indicates that, overall, the initially high-income municipalities (including the main regional urban centres) as well as their immediate neighbours gained the most from selective income migration. We conclude that patterns of in-migration in the 1990s provided the basis for a cumulative process of divergence of per-capita incomes and a growing spatial concentration of high-income locations in the amenity-rich, south-western part of the province.

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Firms’ Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy

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Regional Income Growth and Net Migration in Sweden, 1970‐1995

Cited by 30 publications

References 8 publications

Proliferation concerns in the Russian closed nuclear weapons complex cities : a study of regional migration behavior.

Proliferation concerns in the Russian closed nuclear weapons complex cities : a study of regional migration behavior.

Selective In-migration and Income Convergence and Divergence across Belgian Municipalities

Firms’ Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy

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