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Original Articles

Interregional Migration Propensity and Labour Market Size in Sweden, 1970–2001

Pages 455-464 | Received 01 Nov 2007, Published online: 06 May 2009
 

Abstract

Lundholm E. Interregional migration propensity and labour market size in Sweden, 1970–2001, Regional Studies. The tendency in several European countries toward an increase in commuting has sometimes been presented as one possible explanation for why interregional migration propensity has decreased. This study is an attempt to investigate the impact of job availability on migration propensity over time. Other studies have shown that the size of the labour market has an effect on migration propensity. The same effect was found in this study. However, no evidence was found that job availability has become more influential on migration over time. The process of extended commuting has thus not made commuting opportunities more important as explanatory factor for interregional migration.

Lundholm E. La propension à la migration inter-régionale et la taille du marché du travail: la Suède de 1970 à 2001, Regional Studies. Dans plusieurs pays européens, la tendance à l'augmentation du nombre des migrations quotidiennes se présente souvent comme une explication potentielle du déclin de la propension à la migration inter-régionale. Cette étude cherche à examiner l'impact des possibilités d'emploi sur la propension à la migration dans le temps. D'autres études montrent que la taille du marché du travail influe sur la propension à la migration; cette étude aboutit à la même conclusion. Cependant, rien ne prouve que les offres d'emploi inflent plus sur la migration dans le temps. Ainsi, les migrations quotidiennes de plus longue distance n'ont pas rendu plus importantes les possibilités des migrations quotidiennes comme déterminants de la migration inter-régionale.

Migration inter-régionale Taille du marché du travail Migrations quotidiennes Suède

Lundholm E. Neigung zur interregionalen Migration und Arbeitsmarktgröße, Schweden 1970–2001, Regional Studies. Die Tendenz in mehreren europäischen Ländern hin zu einem verstärkten Pendlerverkehr wird zuweilen als mögliche Erklärung für die gesunkene Neigung zur interregionalen Migration präsentiert. In dieser Studie wird versucht, die Auswirkung der Verfügbarkeit von Arbeitsplätzen auf die Migrationsneigung über längere Zeit hinweg zu analysieren. In anderen Studien zeigte sich, dass sich die Größe des Arbeitsmarkts auf die Migrationsneigung auswirkt; derselbe Effekt wurde auch in dieser Studie beobachtet. Hingegen wurden keine Anzeichen dafür festgestellt, dass die Verfügbarkeit von Arbeitsplätzen im Laufe der Zeit einen stärkeren Einfluss auf die Migration ausgeübt hat. Die Zunahme des Pendlerverkehrs hat also die Möglichkeiten zum Pendeln nicht zu einem wichtigeren Faktor zur Erklärung interregionaler Migration werden lassen.

Interregionale Migration Arbeitsmarktgröße Pendlerverkehr Schweden

Lundholm E. Predisposición a la migración interregional y el tamaño del mercado laboral, Suecia 1970–2001, Regional Studies. La tendencia en varios países europeos hacia un aumento de los desplazamientos al trabajo se ha presentado a veces como una posible explicación a la disminución de una predisposición a la migración interregional. El objetivo de este estudio es investigar el impacto de la disponibilidad de puestos de trabajo en la predisposición a la migración a largo plazo. En otros estudios se ha mostrado que el tamaño del mercado laboral tiene un efecto en la predisposición a la migración y el mismo efecto se ha observado en este estudio. Sin embargo, no se han hallado evidencias de que la disponibilidad de puestos de trabajo haya tenido con el tiempo más influencia en la migración. El creciente proceso de desplazamientos al trabajo no ha provocado por tanto que las oportunidades de estos desplazamientos sean un factor más importante para explicar la migración interregional.

Migración interregional Tamaño del mercado laboral Desplazamientos al trabajo Suecia

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author would like to Professor Gunnar Malmberg, Umeå University, and two anonymous referees for their very helpful suggestions and comments.

Notes

The results turned out to be robust at a closer range definition (80 km) as well.

The use of straight-line distance for delimiting labour markets rather than the functional local labour markets defined by Statistics Sweden is motivated by the fact that these regions are defined by average municipal commuting behaviour. Using these regions defined by observed commuting behaviour as the explanatory variable could have an unpredictable effect on the interpretation of the results.

Thirty kilometres might seem a short distance, but the actual distance on the ground is always longer since 30 km (as well as 80 km) refers to Euclidean distance.

Ideally, pre-move characteristics would have been more relevant, but that was not available in this data set.

Differences between the three years were also tested in the same model as interaction variables; thus, the remarks on the differences between years in the text have statistical support. The tables presented were chosen because they were more readable.

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