Interregional migration in The Netherlands: an aggregate analysis

The understanding of migration behaviour is of key importance for regional population forecasting. This paper studies the phenomenon empirically, the results are to be applied in a regional labour market model that forecasts the spatial distribution of employment and labour force in the long term. Therefore, we pay particular attention to the impact of local labour market developments. Population forecasting demands for a macro approach to migration. However, certain relations that appear evident from microanalyses are difficult to trace in aggregate data. There are two ways in which we deal w... Mehr ...