It's not me, it's you: internal migration and local wages in Great Britain
It's not me, it's you: internal migration and local wages in Great Britain
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不是我，是你：英国的内部移民和当地工资
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10.1080/21681376.2023.2276216
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2023
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Ioramashvili C
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Ioramashvili C
在许多国家，区域收入差距很大，而且持续存在。一方面，从低收入地区向高收入地区的国内移徙可能会随着时间的推移消除这些差异。另一方面，国内移徙可能会加剧差距，因为接收地区受益于技能流入和集聚经济。本文利用2004年至2018年英国的一组员工记录，估计了内部移民和迁出移民对不流动员工收入的影响。如果雇员开始在代表功能性劳动力市场地区的新的上班旅行地区工作，则会被跟踪并确定为内部移徙者。在一个TTWA中，移民和移民外的比例与非移民的收入和收入增长显著相关。结果表明，移民对非移民的当地收入有直接的负面影响。三年后，移民与收入增长呈正相关。这些影响完全由城市地区驱动。外来移民没有显著影响。研究结果提供了一些证据，表明劳动力流动可以作为鼓励地方增长的工具，尽管调整成本很高。
Differences in regional incomes are large and persistent in many countries. On the one hand, internal migration from low- to high-income regions might eradicate these differences over time. On the other hand, internal migration might exacerbate disparities, as receiving regions benefit from incoming skills and agglomeration economies. This paper estimates the effect of internal in- and out-migration on the earnings of employees who do not move, using a panel of employee records from Great Britain between 2004 and 2018. Employees are tracked and identified as internal migrants if they start working in a new travel-to-work area (TTWA), representing functional labour market areas. The share of in- and out-migrants is significantly correlated with earnings and earnings growth of non-migrants in a TTWA. The results show that in-migrants have an immediate negative effect on local earnings of non-migrants. After three years, in-migration is positively correlated with earnings growth. These effects are exclusively driven by urban areas. Out-migrants have no significant effects. The results provide some evidence that labour mobility can be used as a tool to encourage local growth, albeit with significant adjustment costs.