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Title: Elderly Interstate Migration through the Life Course - The Changing Roles of Disability, Veteran and Socioeconomic Status Over Time
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Publication Year: 2010
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Abstract: This research explores how interstate elderly migration behavior through the life coursehas changed over time by examining the role of individual characteristics in differenttypes of moves. Besides socioeconomic status, we focus on disability and veteran status,which past research has shown are linked with differing motives for elderly migration(assistance moves and amenity moves, respectively). Using data from the 1970, 1980,1990 and 2000 Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), our descriptive andmultivariate analyses consistently show that disability status has grown in importancewhile veteran and socioeconomic status have declined or remained stable. These changesare unique to the elderly. The growing role of disability in elderly migration isgeographically universal and extends to both return (a proxy for assistance-relatedmigration) and non-return migration. Its consequences, however, are more complicatedand differ substantially across the regions, which has implications for the rising healthcare costs facing states.
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Authors: Conway, Karen; Rork, Jonathan
Publisher: University of New Hampshire
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Aging and Retirement, Migration and Immigration, Other
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