Family Attachment and the Decision to Move by Race
May 1, 2002
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Summary
Blacks in the United States have a lower geographic mobility rates than whites even though they have several characteristics that are usually associated with high rates of mobility: high unemployment, low rate of home ownership, low marriage rate and settlement in areas where unemployment is high. This paper tests the relevance of family ties in explaining mobility by using proxies that are constructed using data from the University of Michigan’s Panel Study of Income Dynamics, covering the period 1977–88. The results are robust to different specifications and estimation techniques, and explain the puzzle of the role played by the nuclear and the extended family in the decision to move.
Subject: Education, Labor, Labor markets, Migration, National accounts, Personal income, Population and demographics, Unemployment, Unemployment rate
Keywords: extended family, extended family consist, extended family effect, extended family proxy, extended family variable, family, internal migration, Migration, migration rate, nuclear family, nuclear family attachment, nuclear family proxy, panel data, Personal income, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, WP
Pages:
21
Volume:
2002
DOI:
Issue:
083
Series:
Working Paper No. 2002/083
Stock No:
WPIEA0832002
ISBN:
9781451850550
ISSN:
1018-5941
