Using the 2001 Census to Study Human Capital Movements Affecting Britain's Larger Cities: Insights and Issues
- 25 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
- Vol. 170 (2) , 447-467
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985x.2006.00459.x
Abstract
Summary: Human capital is increasingly being recognized as crucial to the sustained growth of British cities, and the population census is unrivalled as a source of data on the characteristics of people moving to and from cities. Taking advantage of new features in the 2001 census, the paper examines how successful 27 of Britain's largest cities and their regions are in maintaining their labour force complement, giving particular attention to young adults and people working in high level occupations. Considerable variation is apparent between city regions, but the interpretation of results is somewhat hampered by limitations in the census data, prompting recommendations for future data collection.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Migration, residential preferences and the changing environment of citiesPublished by JSTOR ,2017
- Education, migration, and job satisfaction: the regional returns of human capital in the EUJournal of Economic Geography, 2005
- Population movement within the UKPublished by Springer Nature ,2005
- Finding work in 2001: urban–rural contrasts across England in employment rates and local job availabilityArea, 2004
- The need for new statistical legislation for the UKJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2003
- The social selectivity of migration flows affecting Britain's larger conurbations: An analysis of the 1991 census regional migration tablesScottish Geographical Journal, 2003
- Toward the learning regionFutures, 1995
- Knowledge-based Development: Policy and Planning Implications for CitiesUrban Studies, 1995
- Migration and the metropolis: An empirical and theoretical analysis of inter-regional migration to and from South East EnglandProgress in Planning, 1993
- Interdistrict Migration in Great Britain 1980–81: A Multistream Model with a Commuting optionEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1988