Describing Spatial Structures of Migration

Andrei Rogers (), James Raymer () and Jani Little ()
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Andrei Rogers: University of Colorado, Boulder Inst. Behavioral Science Population Program
James Raymer: University of Southampton, School of Social Sciences
Jani Little: University of Colorado Institute of Behavioral Science

Chapter Chapter 3 in The Indirect Estimation of Migration, 2010, pp 29-45 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The notion of age structure is a central concept in demography, but the structure of migration, which is inherently spatial, is not commonly presented. The former has been used to develop functional representations of the age patterns of a population or that of a stream of migrants, and it is the basis for the construction of model migration schedules, mathematical expressions such as those that describe the age patterns of migration propensities in Chapter 2. The latter, on the other hand, has no such widely accepted mathematical representation. Yet it clearly exists, as the spatial pattern of the principal U.S. elderly retirement flows depicted in Fig. 3.1 illustrates. We offer such a definition, one that draws on Rogers et al. (2002) and the log-linear specification of the geographer’s spatial interaction model.

Keywords: Spatial Interaction; Migration Flow; Migration Stream; Flow Matrix; Interstate Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8915-1_3

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