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Voting with your feet in the United Kingdom: Using cross‐migration rates to estimate relative living standards *
Author(s) -
Wall Howard J.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.2001.tb01784.x
Subject(s) - standard of living , equivalence (formal languages) , geography , demographic economics , estimation , economics , econometrics , mathematics , management , discrete mathematics , market economy
. This article reexamines and extends the literature on the use of migration rates to estimate compensating differentials as measures of regional quality of life. I estimate an interregional migration regression for the UK and use the results to measure regional quality of life and standard of living. The results suggest a North‐South divide within England, and that Scotland and Wales have relatively high levels of both. The results also lead to a rejection of regional standard‐of‐living equivalence (long‐run regional equilibrium) in the UK.