Investigating the effects of employment-housing change on migration: Evidence from Japan

Boris A. Portnov; Doo Chul Kim; Yoshitaka Ishikawa

doi:10.1002/ijpg.218

Investigating the effects of employment-housing change on migration: Evidence from Japan

Boris A. Portnov, Doo Chul Kim, Yoshitaka Ishikawa

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Abstract

The effect of employment growth on internal migration depends on corresponding adjustments of the local housing market. If employment growth in a geographical area is accompanied by a sharp increase in housing prices, the net outcome may be net out-migration rather than migration gain. In the present paper, this concept is tested using statistical data available for 47 prefectures in Japan. The analysis covers the two five-year periods of 1983-87 and 1988-92, and confirms that the use of a combined representation of employment and housing variables makes it possible to improve considerably the performance of an empirical migration model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	189-212
Number of pages	24
Journal	International Journal of Population Geography
Volume	7
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ijpg.218
State	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Employment-housing interlink
Hyperbolic tangent transformation
Internal migration

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Demography
Geography, Planning and Development

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