Moving to Jobs?
Motu Working Paper No. 2003-07
8 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2003
Date Written: June 2003
Abstract
This paper examines whether New Zealand residents move from low-growth to high-growth regions, using New Zealand census data from the past three inter-censal periods (covering 1986-2001). We focus on the relationship between employment growth and migration flows to gauge the strength of the relationship and the stability of the relationship over the business cycle. We find that people move to areas of high employment growth, but that the probability of leaving a region is less strongly related to that region's fortunes. We also find that migration flows to the metropolitan regions of Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington include a higher proportion of international immigrants compared with the rest of New Zealand.
Keywords: employment growth, migration, regional development
JEL Classification: J61, R11, R23
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