Dorling, Danny and Rigby, Jan (2007) Net Cohort Migration in England and Wales: How Past Birth Trends May Influence Net Migration. Population Review, 46 (2). pp. 51-62. ISSN 1549-0955

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Abstract

An established role for statistical social science is to try to uncover the extent to which aggregate behaviour is conditioned by context as exemplified by the work of Durkheim. A decade prior to Durkheim's seminal work, eleven 'laws' of human migratory behaviour were proposed by Ravenstein. In this paper we suggest an extension to this work, that: migration balances the relative worth of people to places over the course of human lifetimes; not in days, month or years: people follow the tides of life. We explore the concept of net cohort migration to demonstrate this for England and Wales, for which long-term quality datasets are available.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Dorling, D., & Rigby, J.E. (2007). Net Cohort Migration in England and Wales: How Past Birth Trends May Influence Net Migration. Population Review 46(2), 51-62. doi:10.1353/prv.2008.0000.
Keywords:	Migration; England and Wales; net cohort migration; demography; statistical social science; Sweden;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
Item ID:	12801
Depositing User:	Jan Rigby
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2020 14:07
Journal or Publication Title:	Population Review
Publisher:	Sociological Demography Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher Organisation
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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