Labor Migration to Western Europe: A Commentary on O'Loughlin 1986

B S Waldorf and A Esparza
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B S Waldorf: Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL
A Esparza: Department of Geography and Center for Governmental Studies, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL

Environment and Planning A, 1988, vol. 20, issue 8, 1121-1124

Abstract: In this commentary we challenge O'Loughlin's article published in Environment and Planning A , in which he concludes that economic factors only marginally influence migration from the European periphery to Western Europe. First, we consider several methodological inconsistencies that bring O'Loughlin's study into question. Second, a model is developed, derived from disequilibrium theory, that, in contrast to O'Loughlin's findings, demonstrates the importance of economic factors for international migration in Europe in the postwar period.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1068/a201121

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