IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea99/21653.html

Non-Metropolitan To Metropolitan Area Migration Of Young Adults

Author

Listed:
  • Mills, Bradford F.
  • Hazarika, Gautam

Abstract

The decisions of young adults from non-metropolitan areas to either migrate to metropolitan areas or remain in non-metropolitan areas following the completion of schooling are studied in this paper. The migration decision is decomposed into an hourly initial earnings component and a cost component comprising the financial, psychic, and employment attainment costs of migration. There are three noteworthy findings. First, while the propensity to migrate increases in educational attainment, contrary to conventional wisdom, this is entirely attributable to lower costs to migration among more educated individuals. Second, weak local economic conditions exert a strong influence on migration behavior. Specifically, high local unemployment rates and low per-capita county income significantly increase the cost of migration. Third, expected differences in initial earnings continue to provide an important incentive for young adults to migrate from non-metropolitan to metropolitan areas.

Suggested Citation

  • Mills, Bradford F. & Hazarika, Gautam, 1999. "Non-Metropolitan To Metropolitan Area Migration Of Young Adults," 1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN 21653, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea99:21653
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.21653
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21653/files/sp99mi01.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.21653?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. David E. Broomhall & Thomas G. Johnson, 1994. "Economic Factors that Influence Educational Performance in Rural Schools," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 76(3), pages 557-567.
    2. Carrington, William J & Detragiache, Enrica & Vishwanath, Tara, 1996. "Migration with Endogenous Moving Costs," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 86(4), pages 909-930, September.
    3. repec:bla:econom:v:62:y:1995:i:245:p:123-32 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Hoch, Irving, 1979. "Settlement Size, Real Income And The Rural Turnaround," 1979 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, Pullman, Washington 278207, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    5. Irving Hoch, 1979. "Settlement Size, Real Income, and the Rural Turnaround," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 61(5), pages 953-959.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Simeone, Mariarosaria, 2005. "The Generational Turnover in Agriculture: Theoretical Problems and Empirical Evidences," 94th Seminar, April 9-10, 2005, Ashford, UK 24434, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Irving Hoch, 1987. "City Size and US Urban Policy," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 24(6), pages 570-586, December.
    3. Deaton, Brady J. & Nelson, Glenn L., 1992. "Conceptual Underpinnings Of Policy Analysis For Rural Development," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 24(01), pages 1-13, July.
    4. Yaron, D. & Cooper, A. & Golan, D. & Reisman, A., 1982. "Rural Industrialization - Analysis of Characteristics and an Approach to the Selection of Industrial Plants for Kibbutz Settlements in Israel," Working Papers 232600, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Agricultural Economic Research.
    5. Stephen Drinkwater, 2003. "Go West? Assessing the willingness to move from Central and Eastern European Countries," School of Economics Discussion Papers 0503, School of Economics, University of Surrey.
    6. Jaylson Jair da Silveira & João Rogério Sanson, 2003. "The Harris-Todaro labor Allocation Mechanism as an Evolutionary Game," Anais do XXXI Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 31st Brazilian Economics Meeting] f36, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    7. Gil Epstein & Shmuel Nitzan, 2006. "The struggle over migration policy," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 19(4), pages 703-723, October.
    8. Abdurrahman B. Aydemir & Erkan Duman, 2021. "Migrant Networks and Destination Choice: Evidence from Moves across Turkish Provinces," Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum Working Papers 2109, Koc University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum.
    9. Beine, Michel & Docquier, Frédéric & Özden, Çaglar, 2011. "Diasporas," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(1), pages 30-41, May.
    10. Zheren WU, 2008. "Self-selection and Earnings of Migrants: Evidence from Rural China," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business 08-25, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics.
    11. Dustmann, Christian, 2003. "Return migration, wage differentials, and the optimal migration duration," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 353-369, April.
    12. Julia Anna Matz & Linguère Mously Mbaye, 2023. "Correction: Migration and the Autonomy of Women Left Behind," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 35(5), pages 1258-1258, October.
    13. Emily Nix & Nancy Qian, 2015. "The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940," NBER Working Papers 20828, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Jesús Clemente & Rafael González-Val & Irene Olloqui, 2011. "Zipf’s and Gibrat’s laws for migrations," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 47(1), pages 235-248, August.
    15. Chein, Flávia & Assunção, Juliano Junqueira, 2016. "How does Emigration affect Labor Markets? Evidence from Road Construction in Brazil," Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria - SBE, vol. 36(2), November.
    16. Helmut Rainer & Thomas Siedler, 2009. "The role of social networks in determining migration and labour market outcomes," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 17(4), pages 739-767, October.
    17. Pedersen, Peder J. & Pytlikova, Mariola & Smith, Nina, 2004. "Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000," IZA Discussion Papers 1104, IZA Network @ LISER.
    18. Clemens, Michael A., 2021. "Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    19. Eva-Maria Egger & Julie Litchfield, 2019. "Correction to: Following in their footsteps: an analysis of the impact of successive migration on rural household welfare in Ghana," IZA Journal of Migration and Development, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 9(1), pages 1-1, December.
    20. Huang, Kaixing & Yan, Wenshou & Huang, Jikun, 2020. "Agricultural subsidies retard urbanisation in China," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 64(04), January.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea99:21653. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.