This paper investigates the intra-urban residential migration of workers in Melbourne and assesses the spatial effects of this dynamic on urban internal structure and spatial labour markets. Intra-urban migration is an important category of internal migration that relocates human and social capital in urban areas, contributing to changes in urban residential and labour market structure. This paper fills the gap in internal migration literature by determining spatial residential movement dynamics through a spatial analysis of census-based intra-urban migration flow data. In addition to detailed migration flow analysis undertaken at a local scale, the paper contributes an improved economic data geography based on functional economic regions (FERs) that permits analysis of the intersection of worker migration flows with sub-metropolitan labour markets. Our results show that intra-urban migration results in a strong outward flow of workers in Melbourne, which primarily appears to be shaped by spatial housing markets. This process, in turn, contributes to the dispersion of labour markets in Melbourne, complicating policy aims concerning urban agglomeration and limiting urban spatial expansion.

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墨尔本功能经济区工人城内居住迁移与空间劳动力市场变化

本文调查了墨尔本工人的城市内部居住迁移，并评估了这种动态对城市内部结构和空间劳动力市场的空间影响。城市内迁移是内部迁移的一个重要类别，它将人力和社会资本转移到城市地区，促进城市居住和劳动力市场结构的变化。本文通过对基于人口普查的城市内迁移流数据进行空间分析来确定空间居住运动动态，从而填补了内部迁移文献中的空白。除了在地方范围内进行详细的移民流动分析外，该论文基于功能经济区 (FER) 改进了经济数据地理，允许分析工人迁移流与次大都市劳动力市场的交叉点。我们的研究结果表明，城市内迁移导致墨尔本工人大量外向流动，这主要是由空间住房市场形成的。这一过程反过来又导致墨尔本劳动力市场的分散，使有关城市群的政策目标复杂化并限制城市空间扩张。