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Migration and changing employment status: A hazard function analysis

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Iain Molho

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Abstract

The effects of different employment-status transitions on migration choices are considered from a search-theoretic perspective. A discrete-time hazard function for migration decisions is estimated on data for young males of rural origin in France. Employment-status transitions are handled as endogenous time-varying covariates. The model is estimated by distance of move. The results show that the long-distance migration hazard is significantly related to labor market variables, and, ceteris paribus, is highest among job-gainers compared to the other transition groups. The probability of contracted (long-distance) migration is found to be higher than that of speculative migration for unemployed workers, especially those who are low-educated. Evidence consistent with cumulative inertia is found for long-distance moves. Short-distance migration hazards are found to be unrelated to labor market variables (including employment-status transitions) and to display no systematic pattern of duration dependence.

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Author(s): Detang-Dessendre C, Molho I

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Regional Science

Year: 1999

Volume: 39

Issue: 1

Pages: 103-123

Print publication date: 01/02/1999

ISSN (print): 0022-4146

ISSN (electronic): 1467-9787

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9787.00125

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9787.00125

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