Principal Investigators
John Stillwell
Phil Rees
P.Boyle
Dates
1st January 1998 - 31st January 2000
Grant
ESRC Award R000237375
Summary
The research aims, for the period 1976-96 in both Australia and Britain, to:
- construct comparative measures of population redistribution
- explore and compare temporal trends in interregional migration using
an age-period-cohort framework and new visualisation methods
- identify commonalties and differences in the way that age
period and cohort effects have influenced interregional migration using log-linear models
- formulate the relative cohort size hypothesis of Easterlin/Plane
& Rogerson in a testable form and carry out tests using part
of the time series to predict the other part
- explore the way in which migration links different regions
including urban and rural areas and how these links have changed
over time, and identify the key forces that transmit waves of growth
and decline in labour and housing markets.
The investigators aim, with their Australian colleagues, to extend
knowledge of the temporal dynamics of population mobility and
of migration between regions in the two countries.
The existence
of two good databases covering two decades in Australia and
Britain affords a unique opportunity to make progress in understanding
of how people flow through regional systems over their lifetimes and how these changing patterns of migration affect regional growth.
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