Abstract
According to economic theory, regional migration is a primary mechanism through which regional wage convergence is predicted to occur. However, this does not necessarily imply that regional migration has an equalizing effect on regional inequality. Despite considerable literatures on regional migration and regional wage inequality, little attention has focused on the relationship between the two. This paper investigates one of the primary mechanisms through which migration affects individual region's wage distributions. It adopts a semiparametric procedure to examine how the regional wage distributions in Great Britain have changed as a result of migration using British Household Panel Survey data for 1991–2007.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 893-915 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Regional Science |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 15 May 2014 |
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| Publication status | Published - Nov 2014 |
Keywords
- kernal density estimation
- regional migration
- regional inequality
Access to Document
- Regional Migration and Inequality - JRS
This is the accepted version of the following article: Dickey, H 2014, 'The impact of migration on regional wage inequality: a semiparametric approach' Journal of Regional Science, vol 54, no. 5, pp. 893-915., 10.1111/jors.12127, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/jors.12127 .