Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location-Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males |
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Authors: | Wallace E Huffman Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan |
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Institution: | The authors are C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Professor of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, and Economist and Ph.D. graduate of Iowa State University working in Washington DC. |
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Abstract: | This article presents econometric estimates of the adult working-age male hazard function of interstate migration fitted to data obtained from migration decisions of adult males over a twenty-year period. The results show a strong negative effect of the real wage difference between origin and destination, and of fixed costs associated with a move, on the hazard rate of interstate migration. Farmers and other self-employed males, and males who have school-age children, have unusually low hazard rates of interstate migration. Although a high crime rate is shown to increase the real wage, it also has a separate positive effect on the hazard of migration. |
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Keywords: | compensating differentials interstate migration migration hazard function wage equations |
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