The Housing Market and Regional Commuting and Migration Choices.

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Inter-regional migration is influenced by relative employment and earnings opportunities. But strongly offsetting forces operate from relative house prices. Commuting, at least to contiguous regions, is often an alternative to migration. Relative employment and earnings opportunities should influence commuting rates in the same direction as migration rates. Given the commute/migrate trade-off, however, housing market forces should operate in the opposite direction, particularly for contiguous...

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Authors: Cameron, G; Muellbauer, J

• Publisher: CEPR
• Host title: C.E.P.R.Discussion Papers
• Series: C.E.P.R.Discussion Papers
• Volume: 1945
• Publication date: 1998-01-01
• Paper number: 1945
• Language: English