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MULTIPERIOD MIGRATION PATTERNS: THE TIMING AND FREQUENCY OF HOUSEHOLD RESPONSES *
Author(s) -
Krumm Ronald,
Kelly Austin
Publication year - 1988
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/j.1467-9787.1988.tb01212.x
Subject(s) - duration (music) , economics , demographic economics , point (geometry) , marital status , period (music) , econometrics , demography , population , mathematics , sociology , art , geometry , literature , physics , acoustics
The structure of intertemporal patterns of household migration responses is empirically examined. The findings indicate that migration decisions are often related to changes in household conditions in both prior as well as following periods, are dependent on the duration of household status characteristics (e.g., marital status) and not just their presence at any point in time, and finally that migration response in any particular period very often differs among households as a result of differences in the underlying structure of migration frequency behavior. These findings suggest that inferences based on comparisons of household migration responses over only a single period of time are incomplete, possibly to the point of being misleading.