This study was begun while the author was on a Brookings Economic Policy Fellowship in the Office of Economic Research of the Economic Development Administration. Acknowledgements are due Paul L. Burgess, Richardj Cebula, James A. Chalmers, Herbert M. Kaufman, Todd Sandler, WalterJ Wadycki, and the referees for this journal, all of whom have made helpful comments on earlier drafts of the paper and none of whom bears any responsibility for remaining shortcomings.

Prospective Unemployment and Interstate Population Movements

Research on Internal Migration in the United States: A Survey

Behavioral aspects of the decision to migrate

Migration is a means of improving the allocation of human resources. People living in places where they are not fully employed or most highly valued are expected to move to destinations having brighter prospects but both policymakers and migration analysts seem to have mixed opinions as to whether private market forces alone are sufficient to induce them to do so. On the one hand there has been considerable discussion of policies (e.g. relocation assistance programs) designed to affect migration directly by enabling or inducing the unemployed to move to more promising labor markets the implication being that the unemployed are not themselves sufficiently responsive to economic conditions. On the other hand policies of investment in depressed areas are based largely on the premise that expanded local economic opportunities will reduce economically forced outmigration. Available evidence has provided little guidance to policymakers and others concerned with the influence of personal and area unemployment on outmigration. Several studies using survey data (e.g. Saben 1964; Lansing and Mueller 1967) have confirmed that certain unemployed workers are more likely to migrate than employed workers; but because these studies do not use adequate controls for other characteristics that may affect migration the direct contribution of unemployment to migration cannot be determined. Studies using aggregate data to assess the relationship between unemployment and migration (e.g. Lowry 1966) have obtained mixed results but unemployment is often measured at the end of the migration period an hence may have been affected by the intervening migration. (excerpt)

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Does unemployment affect migration? Evidence from micro data

The analysis of migration flows is naturally concerned with the relationships between migration and such variables as incomes or income differentials, employment opportunities, and distance. But before this can proceed, a prior question needs to be answered: whether to study gross or net migration flows. It is commonplace to observe that gross migration flows are typically far greater than the corresponding net flows. Little explanation is provided for this observation, and not much guidance is therefore available in the choice of the dependent variable. The choice is generally based on convenience, for example, the availability of data, or on rather arbitrary inclinations of the investigator.' This paper examines at the theoretical level the distinction among three

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Prospective Unemployment and Interstate Population Movements

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