MIGRATION AND LABOR-MARKET INTEGRATION IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND WALES

There is a long and well established tradition of studies analysing th e pattern and causes of internal migration and assessing the degree of labour market integration in late nineteenth-century Britain. Some st udies document the flows of migrants from one area to another and desc ribe migrant characteristics and the directions of the predominant str eams of migration. Others analyse the determinants of gross or net mig ration flows at the region or county level. The questions implicit in these studies are: How mobile was the labour force? What were the majo r factors which determined individual decisions to migrate? How are th ese factors reflected in differences in migration flows between region s and in the pattern of long distance and short distance migration? Di d labour mobility increase during the nineteenth century?