Migration as spatial job-search: a survey of empirical findings

Reg Stud. 1993;27(4):327-40. doi: 10.1080/00343409312331347595.

Abstract

"This paper surveys the empirical literature concerning the complex interrelationships among personal unemployment, migration and the likelihood of re-employment. Particular attention is devoted to those microdata-based studies that consider migration as spatial job-search. Implications concerning migration efficiency vary among the studies surveyed, and depend upon the methodology, data and econometric procedures employed. Recent findings by the authors, based upon a new estimation technique, provide additional evidence concerning the success of job-search vis-a-vis migration." The geographical focus is on the United States. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND GER)

MeSH terms

  • Americas
  • Demography
  • Developed Countries
  • Economics
  • Emigration and Immigration*
  • Employment*
  • North America
  • Population
  • Population Dynamics
  • Unemployment*
  • United States