Union membership, economic rents, and migration behavior

Goss, Ernst P.; Paul, Chris

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“…Being a union member, self-employed,dn a profession ortrade association, is associated with non-transferable rights, revenue generatingxlients^or location-specific information largely tiedto a potential migrant's current location (Goss and Paul 1990;Pashigian 1979). These • attributes of his employment are expected to.increase-a .potential migrant's utility at his current location relative to a new location and to reduce.his.haz^d rate,for migration (i.e., p?…”

Section: The Hazard Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location‐Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males

Huffman

Feridhanusetyawan

2007

American J Agri Economics

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This article presents econometric estimates of the adult working-age male hazard function of interstate migration fitted to data obtained from migration decisions of adult males over a twenty-year period. The results show a strong negative effect of the real wage difference between origin and destination, and of fixed costs associated with a move, on the hazard rate of interstate migration. Farmers and other self-employed males, and males who have school-age children, have unusually low hazard rates of interstate migration. Although a high crime rate is shown to increase the real wage, it also has a separate positive effect on the hazard of migration. Copyright 2007, Oxford University Press.

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Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location‐Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males

Huffman

Feridhanusetyawan

2007

American J Agri Economics

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“…This, in turn may a¨ect family poverty status. With respect to the percentage of a state's employment that was unionized in manufacturing industries in 1979 or 1989, the existing empirical evidence suggests that the greater the volume of unionization in a state, the higher its unemployment rate (Gallaway et al 1991;Goss and Paul 1990).…”

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“…Since we presume that linked migrants are more likely to move due to family or social ties, they would not respond directly to welfare di¨erentials. Like individual-level transfer income, in general, statewide average monthly AFDC payment per family is a negative factor for labor market participation (Isserman and Rephann 1993;Goss and Paul 1990). We also add the variable measured by the relative attractiveness of public-aid payments compared to state-wide wage rates.…”

Section: Independent Variables: Human Capital/life-cycle Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Independent and linked migration: Individual return of employment opportunity and household return of poverty status to African American interstate migration

Lee¹,

Zhee

2001

Ann Reg Sci

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The thrust of this study is to describe and contrast the determinants and outcomes of African-American interstate migration. We examine two types of migration outcomes – individual return to employment probability and household level return to poverty status. We investigate these motivations and outcomes based on a new typology of migration through the lens of household change that accompanies migration. We specify a pairwise two-stage probit model incorporating individual and state-level variables using Public Use Micro Sample data and various ecological data in the US. We show that independent migrants move to other states envisioning economic models of migration with migration as a derived response to opportunities, pressures, and constraints imposed by spatial inequalities in socioeconomic development. On the other hand, we demonstrate that linked migrants move to other states also for their economic need, but via kinship. In this case, the linked migrants' path does not follow the general pattern of economic circumstances. We show that household composition is an important factor that influences the destination choice for African Americans. While independent migrants are more concerned with diverse economic conditions at destinations, kinship, other ties and household structure at destinations are more significant factors for linked migrants. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001JEL classification: J15, J61, R23,

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“…On the other hand, studies that explicitly studied black interstate migrants found no support for the hypothesis (Cebula and Avery 1983;McHugh 1988). In general, statewide average monthly welfare payment per family is a negative factor for labor market participation (Isserman and Rephann 1993;Goss and Paul 1990).…”

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Migration Determinants and Employment Consequences of White and Black Families, 1985–1990*

Lee

Roseman

1999

Economic Geography

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This study examines the determinants and employment consequences of white and black family interstate migration within the United States during the period 1985–90. We pay particular attention to selecting intact family migrants from the 1990 PUMS data to eliminate couples who migrated from different origins. Migration status is treated as a selection process and is incorporated into the employment opportunity models. We show that various socioenvironmental and fiscal factors are significantly and disproportionately associated with the location choices of family migrants for both whites and blacks. Expected economic benefits are more important to destination choices by black families than they are for white families. Consistent with traditional family migration theory, the employment prospects of migrant wives seem to play a lesser role than the husbands' employment in family migration decisions for both blacks and whites.

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Union membership, economic rents, and migration behavior

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location‐Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males

Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location‐Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males

Independent and linked migration: Individual return of employment opportunity and household return of poverty status to African American interstate migration

Migration Determinants and Employment Consequences of White and Black Families, 1985–1990*

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