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Title: Wages, Welfare Benefits and Migration
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Kennan, John Walker, James R. |
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Wages, Welfare Benefits and Migration Journal of Econometrics 156,1 (May 2010): 229-238. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304407609002188 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Benefits; Economics, Regional; Job Search; Life Cycle Research; Migration; Welfare Differences in economic opportunities give rise to strong migration incentives, across regions within countries, and across countries. In this paper we focus on responses to differences in welfare benefits across States within the United States. We apply the model developed in Kennan and Walker (2008), which emphasizes that migration decisions are often reversed, and that many alternative locations must be considered. We model individual decisions to migrate as a job search problem. A worker starts the life-cycle in some home location and must determine the optimal sequence of moves before settling down. The model is sparsely parameterized.We estimate the model using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). Our main finding is that income differences do help explain the migration decisions of young welfare-eligible women, but large differences in benefit levels provide surprisingly weak migration incentives. [Copyright c. Elsevier] Copyright of Journal of Econometrics is the property of Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
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Kennan, John and James R. Walker. "Wages, Welfare Benefits and Migration." Journal of Econometrics 156,1 (May 2010): 229-238.
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