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Leading issues of fact and theory

Greenwood Mj
American Economic Review 1983
Factual and theoretical issues concerning recent U.S. immigration trends are examined with a focus on renewed interest in the subject among economists. Migration from rich and from poor countries is compared. The impact on the United States in terms of employment opportunities wages and working conditions is discussed. (ANNOTATION)

Migration regional equilibrium and the estimation of compensating differentials.

Greenwood Mj; Hunt Gl; Rickman Ds; Treyz Gi
American Economic Review 1991
In this study we have developed an improved model of net migration that encompasses both equilibrium and disequilibrium components. Instrumental-variables fixed-effects estimates of the model with time-series data for 51 areas [in the United States] over the period 1971-1988 support the importance of both equilibrium and disequilibrium factors in migration. (EXCERPT)