The Time Pattern of Internal Migration: Human Capital Meets Job Matching

A human capital model of migration that includes location-specific capital and job search is integrated with job-matching/flows approach to labor markets. This generates a model that is consistent with the observed pro-cyclicality of new migration. Unlike all previous models, this model not only explains, it predicts the observed counter-cyclicality of return migration.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Allen, Jeremiah
Published in:	The Review of Regional Studies. - Southern Regional Science Association, ISSN 0048-749X. - Vol. 33.2003, 3, p. 284-95
Publisher:	Southern Regional Science Association
Subject:	Human Capital \| Job Matching \| Labor Markets \| Matching \| Migration

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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