A Selective Migration Review: from public policy to public health

Nikias Sarafoglou () and William A. Sprigg ()

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: The contribution of Steinbeck in the late-1930’s concerning motives and decisionmaking for environmental migrations did much to influence research in social science. The Tiebout’s hypothesis and theoretical model of migration, published in 1956, permitted evaluation of urban public policy implications. The impact of these two pioneers in migration theory set the stage for new models and new methods in migration research having advantage of much more data from many more environmental, economic and social sectors applied to many more accumulating, often tragic, examples. This paper looks at the state of the science as these two influential authors left it and how the public health part of the 1930’s Dust Bowl migration to California contributes to our understanding of this complex human, decision-making system. Finally, Garfield's scientometric propagation of scientific thinking was utilized for migration theories.

JEL-codes: A12 B16 F64 H10 I18 J61 O18 Q5 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea, nep-mig and nep-ure
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