The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 67 No. 3 1985
Life on the Frontier: Migrant Information, Earnings and Past Mobility
Abstract
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)
- DOI
- 10.2307/1925965
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 373
- Sources
- openalex crossref