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Poor People on the Move: County‐to‐County Migration and the Spatial Concentration of Poverty
Author(s) -
Nord Mark
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9787.00095
Subject(s) - poverty , census , geography , socioeconomics , demographic economics , population , development economics , demography , economics , economic growth , sociology
Poverty rates in high‐poverty and low‐poverty rural counties, and, thus, the spatial concentration of poverty, are affected by poverty‐specific differences in in‐migration and out‐migration patterns. These patterns are investigated using 1985–90 county‐to‐county migration data from the decennial census. Effects on poverty rates of four migration flows (in‐ and out‐migration of poor, in‐ and out‐migration of nonpoor) are quantified, and their impacts on spatial concentration of poverty are assessed. The effect of selected county characteristics on the migration of the poor and nonpoor in nonmetro counties are estimated. The poor are as mobile as the nonpoor, and the migration patterns of both poor and nonpoor generally maintain and reinforce the pre‐existing spatial concentration of poverty.