Internal Migration and Regional Economic Growth— a Case Study of France

See H.S. Shryock , Population mobility within the United States, Community and Family Study Center, University of Chicago, 1964, p. 404. For the most comprehensive survey of United States internal migration characteristics see H.T. Eldridge and D.S. Thomas , Demographic Analyses and Interrelations, Vol. III of Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950, American Philosophical Society , Philadelphia 1964.

G. Pourcher , Le peuplement de Paris. Origine regionale-Composition socialeattitudes et motivations, Institut national d'études démographiques , Cahier No. 43, Presses Universitaires de France, 1964.

A. Girard , H. Bastide and G. Pourcher , 'Mobilité géographique et concentration urbaine en France—une enquête en province', Institut national d'études démographique, Population, April-May 1964, pp. 227-66.

G. Pourcher , op. cit., Chapter 9, pp. 153-71. Reasons given for moving refer to head of household.

H.S. Shryock , op. cit, p. 407.

For an earlier use of electoral register data on French internal migration see M. Croze , 'Un instrument d'étude des migrations interieures ; les migrations d'electeurs', Institut national d'études démographiques, Population, 1956.

G. Pourcher , op. cit, p. 170.

G. Pourcher , op. cit, p. 168.

A. Girard , et al., op. cit, p. 235.

Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (I.N.S.E.E.) , Recensement general de la population de 1962. Resultats du sondage au 1/20e Fascicules régionaux, Récapitulation pour la France entière, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1964, p. 25.

I.N.S.E.E., Etudes et Conjoncture , June 1959, 'Evolution departementale des revenus des particuliers de 1951 à 1955/6'.

I.N.S.E.E., Etudes et Conjoncture , May 1961 , 'Evolution regionale des revenus des particuliers de 1955/6 à 1958'.

I.N.S.E.E. (1964), op. cit, p. 24, Interregional migrants 1954-62, grouped by age in 1962, percentage of total population in age groups.

A. Girard , et al., op. cit, p. 233.

For a fuller treatment of this subject see A. Fielding , Recent changes in the distribution of population and employment in France and their relationship to policies for regional development, Ph.D. thesis, University of London, May 1965, Chapter II.

In the years 1950-61 only 7,500 families are known to have moved or were intending to move with decentralising firms. See Ministere de la Construction, Bulletin Statistique, July-August 1962, 'Decentralisation et Localisation Industrielle', p. 56.

A correlation coefficient of +0·55 was recorded for this relationship, significant at the 1 per cent level.

A. Chatelain , 'La geographic des salaires en France et son incidence sur les migrations de population', Revue de Géographie de Lyon, Vol. 35, No. 4, 1960, p. 381. For a general treatment of the subject of regional wage-differentials in France see P. Madinier , Les disparités géographiques des salaires en France, Paris , Colin, 1960.

G. Pourcher , op. cit, pp. 278-81.

" I.N.S.E.E. Etudes et conjoncture No. 1 January 1964. 'La puissance economique des grandes agglomerations francaises' (P. le Fillatre) p. 6.

G. Pourcher , op. cit, p. 259.

G. Pourcher , op. cit, p. 95.

P. George and P. Randet , La région parisienne, Collection 'France de demain', Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1959, p. 55.