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Title: Cohort Effects on the Long-term Decline in Migration Rates

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Publication Year: 2018

ISBN: 9781472478061

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Abstract: The USA forms the first of the seven case study chapters in this volume. This is entirely appropriate because, as set out in Chapter 1, this is the country which first alerted the research community to the fact that over time the world may not be becoming progressively more mobile in every way and that internal migration rates can fall as well as rise beyond the short-term effects of the business cycle. This experience is all the more notable given the long-standing perception that the USA has always been a highly mobile society (see Long, 1991). As a consequence, for a long while there was considerable resistance in the USA to the idea that the pace of internal migration could be slowing (Fischer, 2002; Wolf and Longino, 2005), so one of the roles of this chapter is to demonstrate that the evidence is incontrovertible. A second objective is to review the existing literature on migration decline in order to see how much agreement there now exists on the factors that are driving this phenomenon. Thirdly, the chapter presents the results of a new analysis that tests the explanatory power of a set of factors that has been neglected in recent research on the US case. Before tackling these three tasks, however, the chapter begins with an introduction to the data sources available for the study of internal migration in the USA and an assessment of the value of those used in the research reported in the following sections.

Url: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329487509

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Authors: Cooke, Thomas J

Editors: Champion, Tony; Cooke, Thomas; Shuttleworth, Ian

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Volume Title: Internal Migration in the Developed World: Are We Becoming Less Mobile

Publisher: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

Publisher Location: London and New York

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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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