Migration Patterns and Income Change: Implications for the Human Capital Approach to Migration

An Empirical Analysis of Migratory Flows to the United States

“…The coefficient estimated for DIST in Equation (2) of Table 3 says that a 1 % increase in distance causes migration to the United States to decrease by 0.13 %. The negative relationship between these two variables reinforces long-standing evidence reported in prior studies (Yezer and Thurston 1976). In Equation (2), distance is statistically significant at the 90 % confidence level.…”

“…Yezer and Thurston (1976) employ the job-searching model to study behavior of migrants within the United States between 1955 and 1960. Migrated distance is employed in the model as a proxy for information on the destination labor market.…”

Repeat Migration in the United States: Who Moves Back and Who Moves On?

“…Our b a s i c model regards a person ( o r family) a s migrating i n t h e "Many s t u d i e s of r e t u r n migration (Bowman and Myers, 1967;DaVanzo, 1976;Kau and Sirmans, 1976;Yezer and Thurston, 1976;Long and Hansen, 1977a and b;M i l l e r , 1977;and Allen, 1979) use aggregate U.S. Census d a t a , which measure r e t u r n and o t h e r repeat migration by comparing a p e r s o n ' s p l a c e s of residence a t (1) t h e time of t h e census, ( 2 ) f i v e years b e f o r e t h e census, and ( 3 ) b i r t h . e x p e c t a t i o n of b e i n g b e t t e r o f f by doing s o ; i .…”

“…Migrants who move a hundred miles should have e a s i e r repeated access t o f i r s t -h a n d informat i o n t h a n t h o s e who move a thousand m i l e s . Moves based on l e s s r e l i a b l e information should be l e s s l i k e l y t o prove " s u c c e s s f u l , " making a subsequent " c o r r e c t i v e " move more l i k e l y (Yezer and Thurston, 1976).…”

Do Long Distance Moves Discourage Homeownership? Evidence from England

“…Yezer andThurston (1976) or DaVanzo (1983). In terms of empirical prediction we would expect that the awareness of neighborhood problems in the destination housing market decreases with the distance moved, since movers have difficulty collecting reliable information on the problems -especially less apparent ones such as property crime or occasional vandalism -in more distant housing markets.…”