Linked migration systems: immigration and internal labor flows in the United States.

R. Walker; M. Ellis; R. Barff

doi:10.2307/144184

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Linked migration systems: immigration and internal labor flows in the United States.

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Authors:

R. Walker, M. Ellis, R. Barff

Year:

1992

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2307/144184

Source:

Economic Geography. ; 68(3):234-248.

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Abstract

We investigate the relationship between immigration and internal labor movements in the US. Wedding the literatures on immigration and internal migration, we develop a mobility model linking these various flows on the basis of occupational status of worker, producction and institutional relations in the economy, and economic restructuring.

Keywords

Immigration, immigrant impacts, internal migration, economic restructuring, labor markets, simultaneous equations model

Citation

Walker, R.; Ellis, M., and Barff, R. 1992. Linked migration systems: immigration and internal labor flows in the United States. Economic Geography. ; 68(3):234-248.