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New directions in migration research

Perspectives from some North American regional science disciplines

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This paper takes several surveys of the literature concerning migration research as its starting point and directs the reader toward a number of potentially fruitful lines for future research. Major sections include one on modeling migrant choice in which the pros and cons of using gross versus net migration measures are discussed. A second introduces and discusses the concept of a “spatial” choice set, which has the potential to be implemented with laboratory experimental techniques. The third involves a wide-ranging discussion of new directions in modeling the interrelationships between employment and migration.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA

    Michael J. Greenwood

  2. Department of Economics, University of Missouri, 65211, Columbia, MO, USA

    Peter R. Mueser

  3. Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    David A. Plane

  4. Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Alan M. Schlottmann

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This paper was prepared in connection with the Western Regional Science Association's President's Panel, Molokai, Hawaii, February 1990.

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Greenwood, M.J., Mueser, P.R., Plane, D.A. et al. New directions in migration research. Ann Reg Sci 25, 237–270 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01581852

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