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Residential mobility in the UK: how distance and local economic conditions drive residential choices

Monica Langella and Alan Manning


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. Regional inequalities are strongly persistent in [?]


18 August 2019


LSE British Politics and Policy


https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/residential-mobility-in-the-uk/

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