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Migration, Neighborhood Change, and the Impact of Area-Based Urban Policy Initiatives

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The focus in this chapter is on the relationship between migration and neighborhood change. The chapter reviews the relationship between urban deprivation, residential mobility patterns, and urban regeneration policy, commenting on theoretical concepts and empirical findings in earlier studies. It makes extensive use of small area statistics from the UK Population Census, linking together migration data at the most detailed spatial level, Output Areas, with a geodemographic classification system. This provides some interesting insights about the structure of residential mobility in urban areas. The chapter proceeds to examine the impact of urban policy in the Merseyside region, as part of the EU Objective One programme. It uses a matched comparison method to examine the impact of the Pathways area-based initiative upon migration flows to and from Pathways Areas. Its key finding is that the Pathways programme had a significant impact upon residential stability.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Sadly this proved to be a one-off. The migration flows from the 2011 Census are not available in the same level of detail, ostensibly for reasons of confidentiality.

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    Neighborhood types are shown by a letter and a label. Labels of this kind are common in applications of geodemographics and provide, with varying degrees of success, a succinct descriptor.

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    Although all Pathways Areas can be considered to be deprived, there was some inconsistency in their definition. This was primarily for political reasons to ensure support from all five of the local authorities in the Merseyside region.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the contribution of Peter Brown, Simon Whalley and Simon Pemberton to the early stages of the project reported here.

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Buck, M., Batey, P. (2021). Migration, Neighborhood Change, and the Impact of Area-Based Urban Policy Initiatives. In: Cochrane, W., Cameron, M.P., Alimi, O. (eds) Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 45. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9275-1_6

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