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Garasky, Steven |
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Where Are They Going? A Comparison of Urban and Rural youths? Locational Choices After Leaving the Parental Home Social Science Research 31,3 (September 2002): 409-431. Also: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/2/2/9/4/6/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Academic Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Local Labor Market; Migration; Modeling, Logit; Rural Youth; Rural/Urban Migration; Transition, Adulthood; Urbanization/Urban Living An earlier version of this paper was presented at the NLSY97 Early Results Conference sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Joint Center for Poverty Research held November 18?19, 1999, in Washington, DC. The decision for adolescents and young adults to leave their parents and their home community is complex and difficult. This study of youth migration focuses on the geographical location to which urban and rural youth relocate upon exiting their parental household. Little is known about destination choices of youth, especially how they differ for youth from urban and rural areas. A multinomial logit model of migration destination choices that incorporates individual, household, and community level factors is estimated with data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results indicate that while the local economy and labor market are important to the migration decision, the magnitudes of these effects are generally small. Noneconomic individual, household, and community factors play an important role in the migration process, as well. The magnitudes of noneconomic factor effects generally are greater for rural youth compared to urban youth. Copyright: 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved. |
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Garasky, Steven. "Where Are They Going? A Comparison of Urban and Rural youths? Locational Choices After Leaving the Parental Home." Social Science Research 31,3 (September 2002): 409-431.
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