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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

Kennan, John; Walker, James R. - 2021

The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions (rather than a single once-for-all choice), and...

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Self-Selection and Internal Migration in the United States

Borjas, George J.; Bronars, Stephen G.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2021

Within the conceptual framework of the Roy model, this paper provides an empirical analysis of internal migration flows using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. The theoretical approach highlights regional differences in the returns to skills: regions that pay higher returns...

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The Economics of Migration : An Empirical Analysis with Special Referenceto the Role of Job Mobility

Bartel, Ann P. - 2022

studies by focusing on the relationship between job mobility and migration. First, the proportion of geographic mobility that … relationship between migration and job mobility. Third, the effect of migration on the wage gains of individuals is studied and … job mobility is demonstrated at different points in the life cycle …

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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest

Munshi, Kaivan - 2010

This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...

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Foreign Born Scientists : Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries

Franzoni, Chiara - 2014

We report results from the first systematic study of the mobility of scientists engaged in research in a large number …

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Mobility Zones

Monte, Ferdinando - 2020

This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility … restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual … mobility directly or indirectly connects all counties within each set. I compute Mobility Zones for the United States and each …

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Family Migration Decisions

Mincer, Jacob - 2021

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions and explains their effects on the probability of...

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Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration

Card, David E. - 2021

earlier immigrants in the same skill groups. Even after accounting for endogenous mobility decisions I find that inter …

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Internal Migration in the United States

Molloy, Raven S. - 2011

We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...

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Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Internal Migration in the United States

Feng, Shuaizhang - 2013

We investigate the link between agricultural productivity and net migration in the United States using a county-level panel for the most recent period of 1970-2009. In rural counties of the Corn Belt, we find a statistically significant relationship between changes in net outmigration and...

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