The Economics of Labor Mobility: An Empirical Analysis

Gallaway, Lowell E.; Gilbert, Robbie; Smith, Paul E.

doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1967.tb01922.x

Cited by 43 publications

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“…A large number of studies have done this with a remarkable lack of success. Some (e.g., Rogers, 1967;Greenwood, 1969;and Wadycki, 1974) found higher migration rates into high unemployment areas, while others (e.g., Gallaway et al, 1967;Fabricant, 1970;Courchene, 1970;and Miller, 1972) found the unemployment rate to be statistically insignificant as an explanatory variable. In only a few studies has high unemployment in an area been found to be an important deterrent to migration, but often, only for certain population subgroups (Lowry, 1966; Sommers and Suits, 1973; Cebula, Kohn, and Gallaway, 1973-74).…”

Section: Employment Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place-To-Place Migration: Some New Evidence

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1979

The Review of Economics and Statistics

130

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Abstract[Excerpt] This paper presents new evidence on the determinants of place-to-place migration in the United States. For understanding the causes of differential migration rates into and out of labor markets, knowledge of place-to-place migration functions is of interest for a number of reasons. Given a thorough understanding of gross place-to-place flows, one can proceed to calculate net flows; the reverse, of course, is not possible. There are also other advantages of place-to-place studies: parallelism to microeconomic behavior, opportunity to investigate specific 'origin-destination match-ups, recognition of the number and location of alternative opportunities for persons residing in different origins, and exploration of possible asymmetries.Following a large body of economic literature, the analytical approach adopted regards migration as a form of human investment. Economic variables used in the empirical-work exhibit effects in the hypothesized direction and explain up to two-thirds of the variance in intermetropolitan migration rates. However, this high degree of explanatory power is achieved only for certain functional specifications involving particular independent variables. Thus, the empirical results confirm the usefulness of the human investment approach to place-to-place migration, but they show too that the economic factors used as explanatory variables must be carefully specified and measured.

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Section: Employment Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place-To-Place Migration: Some New Evidence

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1979

The Review of Economics and Statistics

130

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“…Some of the early studies were quite crude and aggregative [e.g. Gallaway et al (1967)]. Using total migration flows, they typically found the welfare-support variables to be statistically insignificant.…”

Section: C(aj-aj)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Assistance to the poor in a federal system

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1987

Journal of Public Economics

182

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This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model incorporating utility interdependence, the paper first presents some theoretical results indicating how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized systems of support. It then provides a survey of the empirical work on migration of the poor along with a brief historical discussion of the experience under the English Poor Laws. The concluding section turns to nonnative issues and contends that mobility of the poor is a basic source of inefficiency in wholly decentralized systems of support; this inefficiency, along with certain other equity considerations, establishes a role for the central government in assistance to the poor.

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“…For example, a detailed study by Gallaway ( ) of 1950Gallaway ( -1960 net interstate total in-migration, published by the Social Security Administration, comes to the same essential conclusions as the study by Gallaway, Gilbert, and Smith (1967). In addition, have found total net interstate in-migration over the 1950-1960 period to be insensitive to welfare differentials, whereas Kohn and Gallaway (1973) have found AFDC levels to be an insignificant determinant of total net in-migration to SMSAs over the 1960-1970 time period.…”

Section: Welfare Levels and The Flow Of Total Migrationmentioning

confidence: 89%