The escalator effect in urban labour markets

Anthony Champion, University of Newcastle

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The project aims at understanding how far spatial disparities in human capital arise from migration as opposed to differences between places in developing their own labour force capacity. The research also seeks to discover the impact of local human capital on individual people's productivity, and other labour market outcomes.

There are three main objects of research:
1. To measure the 'escalator' effect; identifying between-place differences in career progression and seeing how far migration responds to these and exacerbates spatial disparities in human capital.
2. To examine the role of investments within the family and in schools, looking at how these affect spatial disparities in education and training outcomes.
3. To investigate the extent to which people's productivity and wages are affected by place differences and changes in local labour market composition

The project will use the following census and events data:

  • 1971 Census data
  • 1981 Census data
  • 1991 Census data
  • 2001 Census data
  • 1971 - 2001 Births to LS members
  • 1971 - 2001 Deaths to LS members

    • This project was approved on 26 March 2009 and is supported by CeLSIUS.