【摘要】We analyze the determinants and regional implications of internal migration flows across Danish municipalities in 2006-2012. Besides assessing the role of labor market and housing market factors in driving a region's net migration rate; we particularly focus on agglomeration factors identified by 'new' migration theories related to regional growth models and the new economic geography. The work contributes to the field in the following way: we extend the scarce literature on the different channels through which agglomeration economies act as an attractor for mobile labor. Moreover; we account for the role of space-time dynamic adjustment processes and simultaneity among migration and labor market variables and finally test for heterogeneity in the migration response to regional labor market disparities among low- and high-skilled migrants. Our results support the view that agglomeration economies are indeed key drivers of internal migration flows in Denmark. That is; while we obtain mixed evidence with regard to the role of traditional labor and housing market variables; most of the included proxies for agglomeration economies such as the region's population density; patent intensity; endowment with human capital as well as the region's employment share of knowledge-intensive services are positively correlated with the region's net in-migration rate. Regarding the regional implications of internal migration flows; the results hint at a process of cumulative causation for the time period of analysis running from agglomeration economies to the inflow of mobile labor and subsequent regional income development.

【文献来源】Mitze T;Schmidt T D.Annals of regional Science.2015（1）