Interpreting Migration Through the Prism of Reasons for Moves

Clark, William A. V.; Maas, Regan

doi:10.1002/psp.1844

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“…Averages in this sense distort the ability to predict individual behaviour. We believe that the finding that not all migrants make gains is consistent with the survey literature, which suggests that only about a third of all moves are effectively labour market inspired (Clark & Maas, ; Dixon, ).…”

Section: The Context and Previous Researchsupporting

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Extending the human capital model of migration: The role of risk, place, and social capital in the migration decision

Clark

Lisowski

2019

Population Space and Place

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Migration is both an economic and an emotional decision; it breaks ties and requires a fundamental commitment to changed workplaces, new social networks and relationships, and new residential environments. Although economic returns matter in the decision to move, it is clear from survey studies that many moves are more complex than those built around market incentives alone. To explore the decision‐making underlying mobility and to evaluate why some decisions are deferred, we explore the ideas of prospect theory, endowment effects, and social capital as new ways to understand the decision‐making process about migrating. Often, the focus on migration passes over the associated and important question of when and why individuals and families do not move. By considering the intersecting roles of risk aversion, place attachment, and social capital, we can use these ideas to model the decision to move and show that both endowment and social capital play important roles in the migratory decision. Our findings extend previous research by incorporating both endowment and social capital in the models of migration.

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Section: The Context and Previous Researchsupporting

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Extending the human capital model of migration: The role of risk, place, and social capital in the migration decision

Clark

Lisowski

2019

Population Space and Place

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“…The focus on socioeconomic predictors and outcomes adopted by these locational attainment perspectives likely provides an incomplete picture of residential mobility because noneconomic forces also motivate households to move and choose specific types of destinations (Clark and Ledwith 2006; Clark and Maas 2015; Cooke 2008; Permentier et al 2009). Of the noneconomic drivers of mobility, kin ties may be among the most important.…”

Section: The Role Of Kin In Mobilitymentioning

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Influence of Proximity to Kin on Residential Mobility and Destination Choice: Examining Local Movers in Metropolitan Areas

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A growing body of research has examined how family dynamics shape residential mobility, highlighting the social—as opposed to economic—drivers of mobility. However, few studies have examined kin ties as both push and pull factors in mobility processes or revealed how the influence of kin ties on mobility varies across sociodemographic groups. Using data on local residential moves from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1980 to 2013, we find that location of noncoresident kin influences the likelihood of moving out of the current neighborhood and the selection of a new destination neighborhood. Analyses of out-mobility reveal that parents and young adult children living near each other as well as low-income adult children living near parents are especially deterred from moving. Discrete-choice models of neighborhood selection indicate that movers are particularly drawn to neighborhoods close to aging parents, white and higher-income households tend to move close to parents and children, and lower-income households tend to move close to extended family. Our results highlight the social and economic trade-offs that households face when making residential mobility decisions, which have important implications for broader patterns of inequality in residential attainment.

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“…These findings are consistent with neoclassical economic theories, which hold that migrants move to take advantage of wage and employment opportunities in different locales and have the human capital and resources that migration requires. While some criticize economic theory for interjecting more rationality into a decisionmaking process than is reasonable based on information available to potential migrants (Goodwin-White 2012;Greenwood 1981;Parrado and Kandel 2011;Ritchey 1976), economic context remains an important element in migration decisions, although it is not the only reason that people move (Clark and Maas 2015;Ihrke 2014).…”

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Pioneer settlement of U.S. immigrants

Gurak

Kritz²

2016

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BACKGROUNDResearch on immigrant dispersion to new U.S. destinations has not addressed the question of how place and individual characteristics influence pioneer settlement. While origin-group social networks influence immigrants' settlement choices upon U.S. arrival and secondary destination decisions within the USA, other factors must be important when immigrants move to places where they have no compatriots. OBJECTIVEBy examining national origin differences in pioneer migration for ten Asian and Latin American national origin groups, our goal was to determine whether and how they differed in their pioneer settlement responses to economic, demographic, social, and pan-ethnic labor markets conditions. METHODSWe used 1990 and 2000 confidential decennial census data because they have sufficient sample cases and geographic detail to study national origin differences. We estimated two types of model for each origin group: a zero-inflated Poisson model that identifies the place characteristics associated with higher pioneer settlement counts in the 1990s and a logistic regression model that identifies the individual characteristics of immigrants who settled pioneer places. RESULTSThe major context correlates of pioneer settlement were 1990 population size, the panethnic presence of foreign-born from each group's origin region (Asia or Latin America), and the lack of a significant agricultural presence in the labor force. The logistic models indicated that pioneers were likely to be internal migrants rather than recent immigrants, fluent English speakers, and residents of relatively dispersed places prior to moving to pioneer labor markets. CONCLUSIONSThe analyses showed the importance of secondary migration and prior dispersion from gateways for pioneer settlement. They also revealed considerable national origin heterogeneity in pioneer settlement dynamics and indicated that national origin differences merit further attention.

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Interpreting Migration Through the Prism of Reasons for Moves

Cited by 76 publications

References 33 publications

Extending the human capital model of migration: The role of risk, place, and social capital in the migration decision

Extending the human capital model of migration: The role of risk, place, and social capital in the migration decision

Influence of Proximity to Kin on Residential Mobility and Destination Choice: Examining Local Movers in Metropolitan Areas

Pioneer settlement of U.S. immigrants

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