title: Migration theories and behavioural models.
abstract: "This review presents a probabilistic formulation of the decision making process, leading to a rigorous treatment of migration behaviour for projection purposes....Aggregate-level models may be applied to migration flows for which the objectively measured characteristics of areas of department and destination act as subjectively measured characteristics and stimuli....Individual-level models use event history methods of analysis to introduce a great variety of characteristics of the subject on the decision to move. They lead to projections using microsimulation models. A further step is taken in integrating macro- and microbehavioural models. The use of aggregate and individual characteristics simultaneously leads to more efficient and sophisticated projection models: the factors affecting behaviour at the micro-level cannot be inferred from aggregate studies and conversely."
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authors.lastname: Courgeau
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005544:Forecasting; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012942:Social Sciences; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Behavior; Decision Making; Demographic Factors; Demography; Estimation Technics; Migration--determinants; Models, Theoretical; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Projection; Population Theory; Research Methodology; Social Sciences; World