Local authority fiscal stance and the pattern of residential migration in the North West of England.

The purpose of this paper, however, is not to consider the normative implications of the Tiebout model itself, but to assess the degree of fiscal mobility that is present in household migration flows between local authority areas, within one region of the UK. The remainder of the paper is in three sections. The first reviews the methodologies of previous attempts to assess the extent of fiscally induced migration, noting the dominance of American studies, and outlines a choice-theoretic structure within which it is possible to model human migration patterns. Section III considers the problems inherent in modelling migration flows, and Section IV presents results for a Compound Poisson analysis of migration between local authority areas within the four counties of the North West region of England, as well as an assessment of the prevalence of fiscal mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]