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Title: A Multilevel Analysis of Young Adult Migration, 1980-1998
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Lee, Ji-Youn |
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A Multilevel Analysis of Young Adult Migration, 1980-1998 Ph.D. Dissertation, Utah State University, 2002 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Earnings, Husbands; Earnings, Wives; Education; Educational Status; Family Resources; Migration The primary objective of this research was to investigate the propensity to migrate the destination choices of young adults, and the importance of individual, household, and community characteristics in these migration choices. Using cohort data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth79 from 1980 to 1998, this study specifies the set of individual-, household-, and community-level of determinants on migration and then incorporates these variables in multivariate analyses to test their direct and relative effects on the migratory behavior of young adult groups. A Cox proportional hazard analysis suggests that among three levels of factors, individual characteristics are the most important determinants of migration, but the migratory behavior is more fully explained by multilevel variables rather than a single-level variable. This research had three foci within the primary objective. This research these issues using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 (NLSY79) from 1980 to 1998. This study employs two multivariate analyses: First, logisitic regression model techniques are used to determine the effects of individual characteristics (age, sex, race and ethnicity, marital status, education, employment status, income, and status inconsistency), household characteristics (family size, young children, total net family income, and power relations between husbands and wives), and community characteristics (population size, the percent of the white population, the percent of 4-years college-educated, per capita personal income, and unemployment rate) on the probability and the direction of migration. Second, a Cox proportional hazard model helps to correct for the censoring problems in the longitudinal data and to explore the simultaneous effects on the hazard of migration by variables specified at the individual, family, and community levels. |
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Bibliography Citation
Lee, Ji-Youn. A Multilevel Analysis of Young Adult Migration, 1980-1998. Ph.D. Dissertation, Utah State University, 2002. |