This paper reports on a model of the sequential migration behaviour of some 76 000 Scottish and Welsh students, from their domicile location to the location of their higher education and on to their employment location. A logit model methodology is employed to analyse the choice of the location...

In this paper we employ dichotomous, multinomial and conditional logit models to analyze the employment-migration behavior of some 380,000 U.K. university graduates. By controlling for a range of variables related to human capital acquisition and local economic conditions, we are able to...

Our paper discusses the relationships between gender, higher education human-capital acquisition and graduate labour mobility. Our analysis is based on a survey of 90,000 students which is examined within the context of of a GIS system. Our results suggest that, in addition to both human-capital...

M CCANN P. and SHEPPARD S. (2003) The rise, fall and rise again of industrial location theory, Reg. Studies 37 , 649-663. In this paper we will argue that new academic fashions, new international institutional arrangements, new communications technology and new developments in data availability,...

M<sc>ameli</sc> F., F<sc>aggian</sc> A. and M<sc>c</sc>C<sc>ann</sc> P. Estimation of local employment growth: do sectoral aggregation and industry definition matter?, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Over the last two decades, numerous attempts have been made to explain the determinants of local growth, with as yet little overall consensus. The...

In recent years, there has been a widespread interest in the economic development role played by ‘Bohemian’ occupations and the ‘creative class’. It is believed that creative people and occupations generate external effects which foster economic growth. However, the degree to which these...

Our paper constructs a simultaneous equation model in order to investigate the relationship between interregional human capital knowledge flows and regional knowledge assets. With the aid of a GIS system, we model the simultaneous relationship between the interregional migration behaviour of...