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Interdependencies in the timing of migration and mobility events

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Methods for examining interdependencies between the timing of migration events and other major events in the life histories of individuals are presented. Individual locational histories are treated as realizations of discrete-state, continuous-time random variables, with migration or mobility events corresponding to transitions between states. The timing of migration is compared to the timing of other transitions in individual life histories, including changes in household organization and labor force status, by investigating the durations of time separating the two kinds of transitions. Empirical investigations are carried out using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

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  1. Department of Geography, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

    John Odland

  2. Department of Geography, Brigham Young University, 84602, Provo, Utah, USA

    J. Matthew Shumway

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Odland, J., Shumway, J.M. Interdependencies in the timing of migration and mobility events. Papers in Regional Science 72, 221–237 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434274

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