Can Freedom and Knowledge Economy Indexes Explain Go-Getter Migration Patterns?

Tate Watkins and Bruce Yandle

Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2010, vol. 40, issue 2, 12

Abstract: The study of domestic and international migration within and to the United States is deep and wide, but as yet no one has developed and tested models that focus on the use of knowledge economy, economic freedom, and personal freedom indexes. Using statistical regression models and following the lead of Cebula-Alexander, we build models for people Daniel Boorstin called “Go-Getters.” We model migration patterns across the 50 states for domestic and international movers in the 25-39-year age group for the years 2004-2008. We find dramatic differences in the determinants of migration for the two groups. All else equal, international movers are driven more by state knowledge economy developments and personal freedom. Domestic movers are not attracted by stronger knowledge economies but are driven by higher levels of state creativity and economic freedom.

Keywords: International Development; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/132445/files/10-2-2.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:jrapmc:132445

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.132445

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy from Mid-Continent Regional Science Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().