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Age patterns of elderly migration: An international comparison

Author(s) -

Andrei Rogers

Publication year - 1988

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061537

Subject(s) - marital status , demography , demographic economics , age structure , developed country , geography , principal (computer security) , economic geography , population , sociology , economics , computer science , operating system

Age-specific rates of migration exhibit remarkably persistent regularities in age profile. These regularities seem to hold all over the world and across time. This article identifies some of the principal antecedents of such regularities, focusing especially on the age patterns of migration exhibited by the elderly. It examines the differentials introduced by gender, distance, and marital status.

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