Volume 19, Number 1 (Winter) 1984
Schlottmann, Alan M., and Henry W. Herzog, Jr. 1984. “Career and Geographic Mobility Interactions: Implications for the Age Selectivity of Migration.” Journal of Human Resources 19(1):72-86.
The age selectivity of migration is often observed in empirical studies of labor mobility in the United States. In this paper we analyze the interactive dimensions of geographic and career mobility while at the same time examining the associated implications of these interactions for the age selectivity of migration. The analyses deal with interstate migration of employed members of the labor force for the period 1965 to 1970. The results indicate significant connections between geographic and career mobility, and that a failure to recognize those interactions overstates the negative influence of age on migration propensity.
The authors are Associate Professors of Economics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This paper is based on work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SOC77-27047. The authors would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of Tom Boehm and an anonymous referee of this Journal.
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