Resumen

PEREZ CAMPUZANO, Enrique  y  SANTOS CERQUERA, Clemencia. Urbanization and migration between cities, 1995-2000: A multi-level analysis. Pap. poblac [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.56, pp.173-214. ISSN 2448-7147.

In the last years of the XX Century, many countries have experienced a de-concentration tendency of their urban population, despite the differences in their rhythm of de-concentration in the majority of the western countries there has been a decrease in the growth of the largest cities. In the Mexican case, it has been hypothesized that the urban system undergoes a new phase known as Polarization Reversal. In this phase the largest cities tend to growth slower than smaller and medium sized ones. To analyze this phenomenon, in this paper evidence on the importance of migration in the process of de-concentration is presented. Also, a multilevel regression is developed to explore the main factors that incentive the metropolitan-metropolitan migration.

Palabras llave : internal migration; metropolis; city; multilevel regression; Mexico.