The Interstate Migration of U.S. Immigrants: Individual and Contextual Determinants

Gurak, Douglas T.; Kritz, Mary M.

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“…Previous studies have found that change in the size of the employed population correlates positively with immigrant settlement and retention (Gurak and Kritz 2000;Kritz and Gurak 2001) and destination choice (Kritz and Gurak 2015), but that pattern did not hold for pioneers. That relationship was only positive and significant for two groups (Salvadorans and Vietnamese) and was negative and significant for six others (Chinese, Colombians, Dominicans, Indians, Koreans, and Mexicans).…”

Section: Macro Characteristics Of Pioneer Labor Markets Settled In Thmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Census data analyses, for instance, show that immigrants living in new destinations have higher levels of human capital than those in traditional destinations (Bump, Lowell and Pettersen 2005;Kritz and Gurak 2015). Other research shows that immigrants who move internally have more education and job skills and are more acculturated than non-migrants (Bartel and Koch 1991;Frey and Liaw 1999;Gurak and Kritz 2000). 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.…”

Section: Research Insights Into Pioneer Settlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The mean wage is for workers employed 45 or more weeks in 1989. According to neoclassical economics, higher wages attract migrants, and previous research supports that tenet (Frey and Liaw 2005;Gurak and Kritz 2000). To control for housing costs, we used census statistics on rental costs in the past month and annualized them for consistency with other measures.…”

Section: Data Measurement and Analytic Strategymentioning

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Pioneer settlement of U.S. immigrants

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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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Section: Macro Characteristics Of Pioneer Labor Markets Settled In Thmentioning

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Section: Research Insights Into Pioneer Settlementmentioning

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“…Even though individual level determinants possess great explanatory power, it is doubtful whether they could cover up a great portion of the intergroup differences in migration propensities as it is also shown in the U.S. American research on interstate migration of immigrants (Kritz / Nogle, 1994;Gurak / Kritz, 2000;Spilembergo / Úbeda, 2004). At the macro level, the economic condition of the region also could shape the migration decisions of individuals.…”

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“…Issues of particular interest are the migration process embedded in the life course perspective (Kley, 2009;2010;Huinink / Kley, 2008;Kalter, 1997;Wagner, 1989), the association of migration with regional labor market characteristics (Windzio, 2004a;2004b;Mertens / Haas, 2006;Arntz, 2005), migration in the context of family (Jürges, 2005;1998) and the relation of geographic mobility with social ties (Vidal Torre / Kley, 2010;Vidal Torre, 2009) as well as with regional ties or regional identities (Kley, 2008;Abraham / Nisic, 2007). Also the internal migration of ethnic minorities in a host country has been well documented (Ellis / Goodwin-White, 2006;Finney / Simpson, 2008;Foulkes / Newbold, 2000;Gurak / Kritz, 2000;Kritz / Nogle, 1994;Newbold, 1999;Spilembergo / Úbeda, 2004;Kulu / Billiari, 2004;. Research in this latter field, however, comes mainly from Anglo-American literature and little is known about internal migration of ethnic minorities in Germany apart from a few exceptions (Schündeln 2007).…”

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Internal Migration of Ethnic Minorities – Evidence from Western Germany

Şaka¹

2012

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractThis paper deals with long distance internal migration patterns of the immigrant population in Germany and addresses the question whether immigrants are more mobile than native Germans and to what extent the differences in spatial mobility behavior between immigrants and native Germans are influenced by a) individual level characteristics, b) macro level regional economic characteristics and c) regional ties. The analysis shows in general a very low rate of long distance internal migration in Germany for native Germans as well as for immigrants. Even after controlling for individual and regional level characteristics, the immigrant population is half as mobile as native Germans. The results are more robust for the 2 nd generation immigrants.

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Internal foreign‐born migrants

Silvestre¹

2013

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

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The migration process for many immigrants does not finish when they arrive in the country of destination. The search for better opportunities implies that immigrants often have to undertake one or more subsequent internal movements within the host country. This process has been studied in the case of, mostly European, migrants who settled down in New World countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries e.g., Dunlevy & Saba 1992; Green & Green 1993. A number of studies have analyzed the internal migration patterns of foreign‐born migrants for the period after World War II.

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The Interstate Migration of U.S. Immigrants: Individual and Contextual Determinants

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