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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pellegrini, Pasquale A

Titel

Migration modeling using the United States public use micro data samples, 1985 to 1990

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This dissertation applies the competing destinations model of spatial choice to micro level intermetropolitan migration destination choice data from the U.S. Public Use Micro Data Samples (PUMS) for the interval 1985-1990. The migration system under study consists of a 10 by 20 flow matrix between the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. in 1990. Both the metropolitan and micro level data facilitate an analysis incorporating well-defined geographic units and their respective attributes, as well as an analysis disaggregated by the personal factors of migrants. The PUMS files provide one of the richest sources of micro level migration data in terms of geographic resolution, the number of individual/household characteristics recorded, sample size, and availability. The competing destinations model is an explicitly spatial model incorporating a competition term hypothesized to measure, to some degree, hierarchical information processing on the part of migrants. Disaggregate origin-specific model estimation results support the theory that individuals have a limited capacity to process large amounts of information, and that a simplifying hierarchical procedure is used such that movers first choose a cluster of spatial units (a region), and then choose a particular destination from within the cluster. This multistage framework also suggests the strong negative role of distance, while population size, employment growth, personal income, climate and contiguity have the expected positive effects on destination choice. The main contributions of this dissertation include further empirical support for the validity of the competing destinations hypothesis, the application of rich PUMS micro data to migration analysis, and an assessment of the role of migrant selectivity in destination choice models.