Despite the growing importance of interregional migration at the local level in rapidly aging society, past literature overlooked the relationship between these two demographic phenomena. To better understand the determinants of interregional migration and its implications for population aging, this study estimated fixed-effects models derived from the gravity model of migration using populatio...

In this paper, we study panel data on region-to-region gross migration flows in Russia for 19952010. We find that barriers to labor mobility that hindered internal migration in 1990s, have been generally eliminated by the end of 2000s. In 1990s many poor Russian regions were in a poverty trap: potential workers wanted to leave those regions but could not afford to finance the move. In 2000s (es...

A methodology for identifying key structures in migration flow tables is presented in this chapter. The tables contain flows of persons cross-classified by origin, destination and some other characteristic, such as age or ethnicity. This work is important for both understanding aggregate migration patterns in general and for estimating flows in the context of incomplete migration data. The rese...

This paper examines the economic segmentation model in explaining 1985-86 Japanese interregional migration. The analysis takes advantage of statistical graphic techniques to illustrate the following substantive issues of interregional migration: (1) to examine whether economic segmentation significantly influences Japanese regional migration and (2) to explain socioeconomic characteristics of p...

Spatial interaction models are frequently used to predict and explain interregional commodity flows. Studies suggest that the effects of spatial structure significantly influence spatial interaction models, often resulting in model misspecification. Competing destinations and intervening opportunities have been used to mitigate this issue. Some recent studies also show that the effects of spati...

In 1981, the US dairy industry experienced a major change in federal policy. From 1950 until 1981 farm level milk prices were supported at a minimum of 75 to 90 percent of parity. Under parity the support price and farm level milk prices trended upward most years. But in 1981, support prices were de-coupled from the parity index. Instead, the support price would be based on the level of milk su...

This paper analyses the determinants of internal migration in Spain between 1995 and 2002. After a brief descriptive study, we begin by presenting an analytical model of internal migration flows. Subsequently, we carry out a semiparametric analysis of some of the main factors affecting the size of net migration rates. The general conclusion that we come to is that these rates are mainly influen...

Whereas interregional networks of individual actors have recently received growing attention, in terms collective regional groups organisations interacting with their counterparts remain largely ignored. This is surprising given the Smart Specialisation agenda's ‘outward looking’ approach. conceptual paper explores rationales and dimensions underpinning knowledge exchange, systems including a d...