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British Politics and Policy at LSE (blog):
Residential mobility in the UK: how distance and local economic conditions drive residential choices

19 August 2019

Monica Langella and Alan Manning find that high unemployment in an area induces people to move away, and has an even stronger effect on the attractiveness of that area to potential movers. They also find that younger and better-educated individuals are less sensitive to distance and tend to move further away than other groups.

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