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Two decades ago, David Plane introduced several tools for analyzing the redistribution of money associated with interregional migration flows (Plane D, Int J Popul Geogr 5:195–212, 1999). But, although these seminal tools were totally correct, they did not deliver all of what they could aspire to because, in several instances, they were not pushed to their logical end. The purpose of this chapter thus is to revisit Plane’s tools and to rework them to reveal their full potential for understanding how interregional migration flows affect a region’s aggregate and per capita income.
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It is customary to multiply the raw values of the index E of population migration effectiveness by 100, and thus the same custom is adopted here with regard to the relative per capita income index e.
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As could be expected, each of the eight triangles in Fig. 2.1 contains the same number of states as the corresponding triangle in Plane’s Fig. 2.3 which, as already said, it supersedes.
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Actual values of the index F of income migration effectiveness are also reported using a multiplicative factor of 100.
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All the more so because the axes have been reversed and that the outmigrant/stayer per capita income differential is obtained by subtracting the per capita income of stayers from that of outmigrants, not the other way around as in Plane (1999).
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The number of data points is necessarily identical in corresponding quadrants, but their distribution among the two triangles that constitute each quadrant may differ as a result of the relative values of the in- and outmigrant proportions in the end- and beginning-of-the-period populations.
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Plane D (1999) Geographical pattern analysis of income migration in the United States. Int J Popul Geogr 5:195–212
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Ledent, J. (2019). Unraveling David Plane’s Tools for Analyzing the Income Impacts of Interregional Migration Flows. In: Franklin, R. (eds) Population, Place, and Spatial Interaction. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 40. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9231-3_2
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