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Author: Bailey, Adrian John
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1. Bailey, Adrian John
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Migration of Young Adults in the United States
Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1989
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Heterogeneity; Life Cycle Research; Migration; Mobility; Mobility, Job

This research is an investigation of the migration of young adults in an explicitly longitudinal context. Research on migration has traditionally centered on identifying the reasons why people move. That approach is enlarged in this research by shifting the emphasis to investigations of why individuals remain at particular locations for greater or lesser intervals of residence. The emphasis on duration of residence allows for the investigation of a wider range of hypotheses about migration but makes it necessary to use longitudinal information to test these hypotheses. The primary objective of the research was to develop a longitudinal model of migration. This was achieved by using an extension of random utility theory to the longitudinal context. An attempt was made to specify the complete set of factors which had been suggested by largely cross-sectional job search and human capital studies as important controls on the length of the residential sojourn. The conceptual model incorporates four such sources of population heterogeneity: employment factors, mobility constraints, life-cycle factors, and the acquisition of human capital. The model is constructed to emphasize the role of migration history for influencing the duration of the sojourn through these sources of population heterogeneity. A survival analysis suggested that the systematic variation that was present in the distribution of sojourn lengths was linked to migration history. A further set of research hypotheses confirmed the relevance of employment and human capital controls on the length of the sojourn. Parameter estimates obtained from a proportional hazards model suggested that unemployment and previous migration history were most strongly associated with shorter sojourns, and experience in the current labor market with longer sojourns and reduced mobility. The research concludes with a summary of the findings and a discussion of the usefulness of longitudinal methods and models for the analysis of time-space problems.
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Bailey, Adrian John. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Migration of Young Adults in the United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1989.
2. Bailey, Adrian John
Getting on Your Bike: What Difference Does a Migration History Make?
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 80,5 (1989): 312-317.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9663.1989.tb01910.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Royal Dutch Geographical Society (KNAG)
Keyword(s): Migration; Mobility, Labor Market

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This paper uses data from the NLSY to examine the role of migration history in influencing labor migration events. It was found that young adults with some migration history were consistently more likely to migrate than young adults without such a history. One-third of the sample experienced a migration event over the period studied. Of those, 60% had moved once previously, 25% had moved twice, 9% had moved three times, and 6% had moved four or more times. Lengths of residential sojourns for the various groups of migrators and chronic migrants in particular are examined and future research topics discussed.
Bibliography Citation
Bailey, Adrian John. "Getting on Your Bike: What Difference Does a Migration History Make?" Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 80,5 (1989): 312-317.
3. Bailey, Adrian John
Migration History, Migration Behavior and Selectivity
Annals of Regional Science 27,4 (December 1993): 315-326.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/pg5g07633243k263/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Immigrants; Labor Market Demographics; Labor Market Studies, Geographic; Migration; Mobility, Labor Market; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Selectivity Bias/Selection Bias

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A series of proportional hazards models are used to study the relationship between migration history and migration behavior for a sample of young adults from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The results support the argument that migration is a selective process. College educated young adults have a greater hazard rate of making an initial migration but a lower hazard rate of re-migration, suggesting they have less need of corrective geographic behavior. Individuals who have moved two or more times are less responsive to national unemployment conditions than first time migrants. Migration is related to the timing of unemployment within a sojourn. The findings suggest that migrant stock is an important determinant of how labor markets function.
Bibliography Citation
Bailey, Adrian John. "Migration History, Migration Behavior and Selectivity." Annals of Regional Science 27,4 (December 1993): 315-326.
4. Bailey, Adrian John
Opportunities for Geographic Research with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 20,1 (1994): 67-77
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Economics, Demographic; Economics, Regional; Geographical Variation; Labor Market Studies, Geographic; Migration Patterns; Rural/Urban Differences; Rural/Urban Migration

Although the 1980s were to be the era of longitudinal analysis little geographic research has taken advantage of longitudinal data. One reason is because geographers require data-sets which contain both information on residential histories and information which is geographically representative. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) meets both requirements and can support important geographic research.
Bibliography Citation
Bailey, Adrian John. "Opportunities for Geographic Research with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 20,1 (1994): 67-77.
5. Odland, John
Bailey, Adrian John
Regional Outmigration Rates and Migration Histories: A Longitudinal Analysis
Geographical Analysis 22,2 (April 1990): 158-170
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Keyword(s): Migration; Regions

The basis of associations between regional in-migration rates and regional out- migration rates is investigated by treating regional populations as a mixture of sub-populations with different migration histories. Differences in the lengths of residence in a region between persons with recent migration histories and persons without such histories are sufficient to account for patterns of association between in-migration rates and out-migration rates in subsequent periods. Empirical analyses of the lengths of residential sojourns for young adults indicate that recent histories of in-migration may account for an appreciable portion of the variation in regional out-migration rates.
Bibliography Citation
Odland, John and Adrian John Bailey. "Regional Outmigration Rates and Migration Histories: A Longitudinal Analysis." Geographical Analysis 22,2 (April 1990): 158-170.