Print Email Facebook Twitter Migration, occupational mobility, and regional escalators in Scotland Title Migration, occupational mobility, and regional escalators in Scotland Author Van Ham, M. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2012-12-04 Abstract This paper seeks to unpick the complex relationship between an individual’s migration behaviour, their place of residence, and their occupational performance in the Scottish labour market between 1991 and 2001. We investigate whether Edinburgh has emerged as an occupational escalator region and whether individuals moving there experience more rapid upward occupational mobility than those living and moving elsewhere. Using country of birth, we also control for an individual’s propensity to make long distance moves during earlier periods of their life course. Using data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, linking 1991 and 2001 individual census records, and logistic regressions, we show that those who migrate over long distances within or to Scotland are most likely to achieve upward occupational mobility. We also found that Edinburgh is by far the most important regional escalator in Scotland; those moving to Edinburgh are the most likely to experience upward occupational mobility from low to high occupational status jobs. This is an important finding as most of the literature on escalator regions focuses on international mega cities. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:da559a8e-8474-4547-bac3-3e9f3b0a5188 DOI https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/827171 Publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISSN 2090-4193 Source Urban Studies Research, 2012, Article ID 827171 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 Maarten van Ham et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Files PDF 827171.pdf 8.29 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:da559a8e-8474-4547-bac3-3e9f3b0a5188/datastream/OBJ/view