Are highly educated workers better at locating in areas with high labor demand? To answer this question, I use three decades of U.S. Census data to estimate a McFadden-style model of residential location choice. I test for education differentials in the likelihood that young workers reside in states experiencing positive labor demand shocks at the…

This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native- and foreign-born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our empirical analysis, we include a measure for return…

Concludes that low ratios of net to gross migration at higher levels of education are the result of greater regional income equality, due to the efficiency of past migration. (BH)

Real income is used in developing and empirically testing this cost and returns approach to migration theory. (BH)

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint determination of the wage structure and internal migration behavior for native-born workers in local labor markets. Using data from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, the study shows that immigration is associated with lower in-migration rates, higher…

The author presents a two-period nested logit migration model and uses it to study the choices of young male workers with regard to location. Results indicate that locational choices in one period affect choices in subsequent periods. Little evidence of relationships between locational choice and wage equations was found. (Author/CH)

We investigated whether the September 11, 2001 terrorists' attacks had any effect on employment, earnings, and residential mobility of first- and second-generation Arab and Muslim men in the United States. We find that September 11th did not significantly affect employment and hours of work of Arab and Muslim men, but was associated with a 9-11…

This study concludes that, on the one hand, age increases the psychic cost of moving and decreases the length of the accrual period for benefits, thus inhibiting geographic mobility. On the other hand, age increases the general skill level, thus stimulating geographic mobility. (Author/CT)

Concludes that sending Canadians to the United States for graduate studies entails a high risk of nonreturn. (BH)

The effect of the court ordered desegregation plans, on trends in segregation and white flight, are estimated. The effect of availability of school districts and other factors on the white flight across districts is also mentioned.

A study of the welfare programs in two counties bordering different states along with comparative welfare expenditure in interior counties tests the theory that Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients migrate to counties which have a higher per capita welfare budget. Research shows that border counties with a $100 differential…