Structural economic change, labour market segmentation and interregional migration

Australians on the move : internal migration in Australia, 1981-1986

“…Tkble 5,16 provides evidence that these fectors are also significant for those moving between capital cities. This offers considerable support for tiie ideas outiined by McKay & Whitelaw (1976cMcKay 1984;McKay, Goodman &, Savage 1985c) and Jarvie (1982Jarvie ( , 1985Jarvie ( , 1989a as to tiie significance of promotional transfers for career development within large organisations. These concepts are examined in more detail in chapter eight.…”

“…Understanding has been 48 sought partly in the behavioural tradition, by reference to changing preferences (or the ability to realise existing preferences), but also in terms of transformations in the underlying scxiial and economic stmcture. The key argument here, sketohed by McKay & Whitelaw (1976c, McKay 1982 and elaborated by Jarvie (1985Jarvie ( , 1989b in the context of countemrbanisation, is that changes in pattems of interregional migration since the early 1970s can be interpreted primarily as a response to a shift in the Icx^tion of labour demand associated with transformation from a manufecturing to a service-based economy. Jobs in the latter, it is argued, are less firmly tied to major urban centres.…”

“…These, it is argued, act as 'switohing points' taking in migrants from interstete and overseas and recycling them down the urban hierarchy. These concepts have been further elaborated by Jarvie (1985Jarvie ( , 1989aJarvie ( , 1989b who suggests that labour force migration in Australia, particularly amongst higher stetus salary eamers, can be viewed in terms of a three-tier hierarchy. These tiers rank Melboume and Sydney first as national metropolitan centres, followed by the remaining stete capitals and the non-metropolitan parts of Australia.…”

“…As noted in chapter two, there has been considerable research on countemrbanisation in Australia including major contributions by Hugo (1987dHugo ( , 1988cHugo ( , 1989Hugo and Smailes 1986 and Jarvie (1981Jarvie ( , 1982Jarvie ( , 1985Jarvie ( , 1989aJarvie ( , 1989bJarvie and Browett 1980) and numerous case studies of specific areas (see for example Bell 1980, Birtles 1990, Bumley 1988, Hugo & Smailes 1985, Smailes and Hugo 1985, Weinand and Lea 1990. Recent work has shown that, after accelerating during the late 1970s, the pace of countemrbanisation slowed over the 1981-86 intercensal period (Hugo 1989) and that the pattems became more spatially concentrated (Hugo & Smailes 1992).…”

“…Reversal of the long-standing tendency towards increasing population concentration in Australia's major metropolitan areas was first identified from 1976 census date (Stewart 1977) and has subsequentiy spawned a substantial research effort aimed at identifying the spatial fcxius of the tumaround and explaining its causes. Studies have variously combined residual estimates of net migration (Hugo & Smailes 1985Jarvie 1978;Jarvie & Browett 1980) witii censusbased flow date (Jarvie 1981(Jarvie , 1982(Jarvie , 1985(Jarvie , 1989a(Jarvie , 1989b and survey research (Hugo & Smailes 1990Smailes & Hugo 1985) and have ranged from nation-wide analyses (Goddard 1983, Hugo 1986b, 1987a to tiie local community level (Bell 1980, Birtles 1990, Bumley 1988, Menzies & Bell 1981, Smailes & Hugo 1985, Weinand & Lea 1990. A sub-theme within the countemrbanisation literature has fcxjused on sunbelt movement to coastal areas, particularly in northem New Soutii Wales and Queensland (Barker 1985;Drysdale 1991;Mullins 1979;Murphy 1977Murphy , 1981Murphy &, Zehner 1988).…”