Migração intrametropolitana e mobilidade pendular: Evidências para a região metropolitana do Recife

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between commuting and labor migration in the Recife Metropolitan Area (RMR), Brazil. We use data from Demographic Census of 2010 to estimate a copula-based model of intrametropolitan commuting which takes accounting self-selection of migration. Our finds suggest that changing in residence and work places are complements in the metropolitan area. This evidence reinforces the role of the urban decentralization process in the commuting. In addition, the results showed that a migrant worker has on average 47.7 points more in probability of working in another city than a worker who have never moved from its city of birth. We also observe a downward bias in the estimates when we ignore the self-select ion in migration.