Voting with your feet in the United Kingdom: Using cross-migration rates to estimate relative living standards

This article reexamines and extends the literature on the use of migration rates to estimate compensating differentials as measures of regional qualit y of life. I estimate an interregional migration regression for the UK and use the results to measure regional quality of life and standard of living. The results suggest a North-South divide within England, and that Scotland and Wales have relatively high levels of bath, The results also lead to a rejection of regional standard-of-living equivalence (long-run regional equ ilibrium) in the UK. JEL classification: J61, R23.