title: Does migration arbitrage regional labor market differentials?
abstract: "This paper examines the determinants of regional migration [in the United States] in the 1980s using a place-to-place migration model in which migration flows depend upon the relative economic opportunities in the origin and destination regions.  Using the results of the model, we then examine the potential role for migration in diffusing the economic pressures associated with disparate regional economic growth.  Although the results reinforce the notion that divergent regional growth was an impetus to migration in the 1980s, estimates of the employment status of movers suggest that the true effects of migration on unemployment differentials may be quite small."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005843:Geography; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014478:Unemployment; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Demographic Factors; Destination; Developed Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Employment; Geographic Factors; Inequalities; Labor Migration; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Migration, Internal; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Origin; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Unemployment; United States