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Net Cohort Migration in England and Wales: How Past Birth Trends May Influence Net Migration
- Population Review
- Population Review Publications
- Volume 46, Number 2, 2007
- pp. 51-62
- 10.1353/prv.2008.0000
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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.