title: Welfare payments and other economic determinants of female migration.
abstract: "This article investigates the effects of welfare payments, wages, and unemployment on women's probability of interstate migration [in the United States]. It also investigates if the income attraction of locations varies with recency of labor market experience. Welfare gains increase the probability of interstate migration. Welfare effects are largest for single mothers with small children and stronger among women with no recent labor market experience. The welfare effects, albeit small, are larger than the wage effects. The wage effects are weaker among women with no recent work experience. Ethnic-specific analyses suggest differences in migration behavior among Anglos, African-Americans, and Puerto Ricans."
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Enchautegui
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012946:Social Welfare; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014478:Unemployment; D014481:United States; D014930:Women
keywords: Americas; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Employment; Ethnic Groups; Labor Migration--women; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Migration, Internal--women; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Social Welfare; Unemployment; United States; Wages; Women