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EXPLAINING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RATES OF IN‐MIGRATION AND OUT‐MIGRATION
Author(s) -
Mueser Peter R.,
White Michael J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1989.tb01186.x
Subject(s) - association (psychology) , population , economic geography , economics , geography , psychology , demography , sociology , psychotherapist
A positive association between rotes of in‐migration and out‐migration across locations has long been observed. This apparent paradox has usually been attributed to the impact of in‐migration on population composition. We argue here that the intrinsic structure of population dynamics may also induce this effect, and we develop a formal model of this process. Empirical analyses using migration data for stales in the U.S. over 1955‐1960, 1965‐1970, and 1975‐1980 show that the intrinsic mechanism may swamp the compositional effect.