A review of the literature on elderly migration in the Federal Republic of Germany

Rohr-Zänker, Ruth

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“…In several papers, Ledent and Liaw (1986, 1988, 1989 considered the determinants of elderly migration. Among the elderly, the propensity to migrate was higher for non-natives, those of British descent, Protestants, those speaking English at home, the more educated, those not in the labour force, and those with a high household income.…”

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Migration of elderly households in Canada, 1991–1996: determinants and differences

Marr

Millerd

2004

Population Space and Place

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elderly. The human capital model of migration is not applicable to the elderly. For couples both the characteristics of the primary household maintainer and the characteristics of the spouse or common-law partner are determinants of the couple's migration, underlining the importance of modelling migration as a household move. Single-person households often, but not always, show results similar to those for couples. When male and female single-person households are compared, migration determinants usually have a stronger effect on females then on males. ABSTRACTThe elderly, already a significant component of internal migration in Canada, will be an increasingly important element of future internal migration. Using census data on households, the flows and determinants of elderly migration are examined and compared with younger groups. Few migrate as individuals, most moves are multiple-person moves, and the household, particularly the family, is the appropriate unit of analysis. In 1996 over 88% of those who migrated in the previous five years were members of households of two or more persons. The elderly are compared with the near-elderly and those likely to be in the labour force, using the age of the primary household maintainer, a person named by each household, to classify households. The elderly are households with a primary household maintainer 65 years of age or over, the nearelderly have a primary household maintainer of 55 to 64 years, and independent decisionmakers, the major component of the labour force, have a primary household maintainer aged 25 to 54. Significant differences are found between the groups. The elderly have a lower rate of migration and their migration determinants and destinations are less driven by employment considerations. While education, for example, is a consistently-found determinant of migration for those in the labour force, it is much less significant for the

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Migration of elderly households in Canada, 1991–1996: determinants and differences

Marr

Millerd

2004

Population Space and Place

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Assessing changes in interstate migration patterns of the United States elderly population, 1965-1990

Lin

1999

Int. J. Popul. Geogr.

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This study examines temporal changes in elderly interstate migration in the United States. All of the interstate movers who were 60 and over are selected from the Public Use Micro‐Samples (PUMS) of the 1970, 1980 and 1990 censuses, and three interstate mobility tables are constructed. A triply‐constrained gravity model is used to compare the propensities of moving to southern destinations while controlling population sizes for origins, destinations and sample years. The results show that the propensity for moving from cold regions to warm regions has declined by 2.5% since 1980. Elderly migrants from the major retiree‐sending regions have begun to lose their ties to the popular southern migration destinations (e.g. Florida, Arizona, California), and, for the most part, this process started in the late 1980s. However, unlike the temporal pattern of the United Kingdom, where elderly migrants have started to move to various inland destinations, US states that registered a persistent gain in the share of elderly migrants are still in the south or southwest, and they are the new competitors to the traditionally established retirement destinations. Newly emergent interstate elderly migration trends can be characterised as geographically focused decline and focused growth. Even though this trend has not caused a reduction in the number of elderly movers to the traditional retirement magnet states, it may result in the saturation of long‐term care facilities in the traditional retirement states while causing shortages in new retirement states. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Wanderungen alter Menschen — Das Beispiel der Rückwanderungen der älteren Arbeitsmigranten

Dietzel-Papakyriakou¹

1999

Soziale Gerontologie Und Sozialpolitik Für Ältere Menschen

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A review of the literature on elderly migration in the Federal Republic of Germany

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Migration of elderly households in Canada, 1991–1996: determinants and differences

Migration of elderly households in Canada, 1991–1996: determinants and differences

Assessing changes in interstate migration patterns of the United States elderly population, 1965-1990

Wanderungen alter Menschen — Das Beispiel der Rückwanderungen der älteren Arbeitsmigranten

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