Abstract
Reuschke D. Self-employment as a route in and out of Britain's South East, Regional Studies. Based on A. J. Fielding's Escalator Region Model (ERM) on South East England, this paper examines whether the South East exports its ‘entrepreneurial culture’ and gains entrepreneurial resources through internal migration using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) 1991–2008. Results show that, consistent with the ERM, the region loses entrepreneurs. However, importantly, out-migrants from the South East are more likely to exit subsequently from self-employment relative to other UK internal migrants. Despite its economic functions, the South East is no more likely to attract (would-be) self-employed entrepreneurs than other regions. This calls into question to what extent the South East acts as an ‘escalator’ in terms of self-employment.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 665-680 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Regional Studies |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Apr 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments – The work on this paper was funded by a Marie Curie grant from the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program (ID 252752). The author is grateful to Tony Champion for encouraging her to work on this paper and for helpful comments. The author would also like to thank Donald Houston for producing the map and for comments on an earlier version of this paper. The author is also grateful to three autonomous referees for their methodological and theoretical suggestions and advice.
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Keywords
- Escalator region
- Internal migration
- Panel data
- Self-employment
- South East England
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science
- General Social Sciences