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Author: Ye, Huaide
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1. Ye, Huaide
Does the Family Structure Matter in the Process of Migration Decision-Making? A Longitudinal Analysis of Migration among American Youth: 1984-1994
Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1999
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Demography; Ethnic Studies; Family Income; Family Structure; Human Capital; Migration; Racial Studies; Skills; Training

In this research, I consider how family structure affects the propensity of household migration among American young adults. I focus on three questions: (1) Are different family structures causes of households to stay or migrate, and migrate in short or long distance? (2) Do some family demographic characteristics, household human capital, and household economic status within each family structure influence the household or family migration decision making and if they do, to what extent? (3) Are different migration patterns among different racial and ethnic groups associated with their different family structures? I address these questions using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) with a pooled sample of 92,293 respondents aged 19 to 36 from the 1984 to 1994 survey rounds. The results reveal that overall, without controls, male broken families have experienced greater likelihood of migration than married couple families for all racial and ethnic groups and after controls, male broken families have experienced greatest likelihood of migration among all family structure categories for all racial and ethnic groups except for Cuban Americans. Black never-married mother families are least likely to migrate both in short and long distance before and after controls. Within family, number of own children, education, total family income, and respondent employment status are predictors in household migration decision-making for all racial and ethnic groups except for Cuban Americans. However, the findings of a differential in effects of family structure on household migration propensity among different racial and ethnic groups suggest a need for developing different migration theories and models for different racial and ethnic groups. From a policy perspective, the important findings that the persistence of least likelihood of migration both in short and long distance for black never-married mother families before and after controls point to the need for possiblepolicy intervention. If high welfare payments have served as an attraction to these black never- married mothers in the regions with the highest unemployment rates, more appropriate policy seems to have them increased their human capital through training and skill upgrading given that human capital is known to be positively associated with migration.
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Ye, Huaide. Does the Family Structure Matter in the Process of Migration Decision-Making? A Longitudinal Analysis of Migration among American Youth: 1984-1994. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1999.