Real Earnings and Human Migration in the United States

Richard Cebula ()

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Abstract: This study seeks to fill a void in the empirical migration literature, namely, to allow expressly for geographic living-cost differentials. The study focuses upon net migration to SMSAs over the period 1960-1970. The analysis involves two alternative treatments of living costs, one being to deflate nominal income and the other being to express those living-cost levels as a separate variable. Both approaches work. Migrants are found to be attracted to SMSAs with higher real income levels and to be attracted to SMSAs with lower living costs.

Keywords: migration; living costs; real income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981-03-07
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Published in International Migration Review 1.16(1982): pp. 189-196

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