Henry W. Herzog, Jr., Alan M. Schlottmann, Valuing Risk in the Workplace: Market Price, Willingness to Pay, and the Optimal Provision of Safety, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Aug., 1990), pp. 463-470

The purpose of this paper is to examine demographic and socioeconomic determinants of migration for both employed and unemployed. Hypotheses concerning effects of age education and public services are developed and tested using data on interstate migration of U.S. labor force from 1965 to 1970. For individuals at-risk to either primary or repeat migration age and education selectivity of migration were in general confirmed. However for unemployed potential primary migrants education selectivity was not observed. It was also found that the provision of welfare services have little or no impact on migration decision of unemployed....However unemployment was shown to significantly affect role played by educational quality and training accessibility within migration decision. (EXCERPT)

This analysis develops a model in which, for the first time, households' mobility decisions are separated into intra-urban movements and migrations. These two mobility decisions and the households' tenure (own/rent) choice are estimated as part of a multinomial logit framework and are found to be jointly determined. The literature suggests that the intra-urban mobility and migration decisions are motivated by quite different factors. Consequently, by separating the two choices for the purpose of estimation, each equation can be specified more correctly. In addition, variables which affect migration can be shown to have an impact on intra-urban mobility and tenure choice which would otherwise be ignored.

This paper examines the extent to which information obtained from past geographic mobility affects both post-move job-search and earnings in subsequent migration [in the United States]. The study considers this linkage between past and present mobility by estimating earnings frontiers for various categories of interstate migrants partitioned by prior mobility history....[The] results demonstrate that migrant groups exhibiting high relative levels of human capital stock do not necessarily possess superior pre-move labor market information. It is also demonstrated that the incentive to acquire this pre-move information is tied to psychic cost and variation in this cost among migrant types. (EXCERPT)

Nasser Daneshvary, Henry W. Herzog, Jr., Richard A. Hofler, Alan M. Schlottmann, Job Search and Immigrant Assimilation: An Earnings Frontier Approach, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Aug., 1992), pp. 482-492