Migration and Labor Market Adjustment

301 Pages·1989·5.79 MB·English

by  Jouke Van Dijk

MIGRATION AND LABOR MARKET ADJUSTMENT
Migration
and
Labor Market Adjustment
Edited by
JOUKE V AN DIJK
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
HENDRIK FOLMER
Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
HENRY W. HERZOG, Jr. and ALAN M. SCHLOTTMANN
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, u.s.A.
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.Y.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Migration and labor market adjustment I edited by Jouke van Dijk ...
let a1.l.
p. cm.
Papers from the International Conference on Migration and Labor
Market Adjustment, held at the University of Tennessee, Dct. 15-17,
1987.
Includes index.
1. Migration, Internal--United States--Congresses. 2. Labor
supply--United States--Congresses. 3. Migration, Internal-
-Congresses. 4. Labor supply--Congresses. I. Dijk, Jouke van.
II. International Conference on Migration and Labor Market
Adjustment (1987 : University of Tennessee)
HB1965.M54 1989
331. 12'0973--dc19 88-7635
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ISBN 978-94-015-7848-6 ISBN 978-94-015-7846-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-7846-2
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
INTRODUCTION 1
1. EQUILIBRATING AND ADJUSTMENT TENDENCIES OF INTER
REGIONAL MIGRATION: AN INTRODUCTION 3
Jouke van Dijk, Hendrik Folmer, Henry W. Herzog Jr., and
Alan M. Schlottmann
PART 1/ MIGRATION AS A REFLECTION OF INTER-
REGIONAL LABOR MARKET ADJUSTMENT 21
2. REGIONAL LOCATION PATTERNS IN THE UNITED STATES:
RECENT CHANGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS 23
Michael J. Greenwood, James A. Chalmers and Philip E.
Graves
3. CYCLES, CONVERGENCE AND INTERREGIONAL ADJUSTMENT 47
Charles L. Leven
PART II / UNEMPLOYMENT, MIGRATION AND JOB
MATCHING 59
4. LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS AND THE EFFICIENCY OF
INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION: A CROSS-NATION COMPARISON 61
Jouke van Dijk, Hendrik Folmer, Henry W. Herzog Jr., and
Alan M. Schlottmann
5. DOES MIGRATION REDUCE DIFFERENTIALS IN REGIONAL
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES? 85
Gordon Hughes and Barry McCormick
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vi
PART III / REGIONAL LABOR MARKET DYNAMICS,
MIGRATION AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY 109
6. INTERREGIONAL WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN THE UNITED
STATES: A SURVEY 111
Mark Dickie and Shelby Gerking
7. THE ROLE OF MIGRATION IN REGIONAL ADJUSTMENT 147
John Vanderkamp
8. SIMULTANEOUS MODELS FOR MIGRATION AND COMMUT-
ING: MACRO AND MICRO ECONOMIC APPROACHES 177
Gerard H. M. Evers
PART IV / LABOR MARKET MOBILITY AND PERSONAL
STATUS: A HUMAN INVESTMENT APPROACH 199
9. JOB MOBILITY AND SUBSEQUENT WAGES IN SWEDEN 201
Anders Bjorklund and Berti! Holmlund
10. LANGUAGE SKILL ACQUISITION, LABOR MARKETS AND
LOCATIONAL CHOICE: THE FOREIGN-BORN IN THE UNITED
STATES, 1900 AND 1980 217
Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig
11. SPATIAL DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY: AN ANALYSIS
WITH LIFE HISTORY DATA FOR THREE WEST GERMAN
COHORTS 241
Michael Wagner
PART V / CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 265
12. EVALUATING THE EFFICIENCY OF LOCAL LABOR MARKETS 267
Paolo Caravani
13. STATE SPACE HETEROGENEITY AND SPACE DETERMINA
TION FOR MARKOV MODELS OF MOBILITY 279
Hubert Jayet
Author index 299
Subject index 303
CONTRIBUTORS
ANDERS BJORKLUND, Institute for Social Research, University of
Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
PAOLO CARA VA NI, Instituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica,
Italian Research Council, Viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Rome, Italy
JAMES A. CHALMERS, Mountain West Research, 432 North 44th
Street, Suite 400, Phoenix, Arizona 85008, The United States
MARK T. DICKIE, School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083-0688, The United States
JOUKE VAN DUK, Department of Economics, University of Groningen,
P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
GERARD H. M. EVERS, Department of Personnel Management
Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, University of Tilburg, P.O. Box 90153,
NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
HENDRIK FOLMER, Department of General Economics, Wageningen,
Agricultural University, Hollandseweg 1, 6707 KN Wageningen, The
Netherlands
SHELBY GERKING, Department of Economics, University of Wyoming,
University Station, Box 3985, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, The United
States
PHILIP E. GRAVES, Department of Economics, University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado 80309, The United States
MICHAEL J. GREENWOOD, Department of Economics, University of
Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, The United States
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HENRY W. HERZOG, JR., Department of Economics, Stokely Manage
ment Center, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-
0550, The United States
BERTIL HOLMLUND, Department of Economics, Uppsala University,
Box 513, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
GORDON A. HUGHES, Department of Economics, University of Edin
burgh, William Robertson Building, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8
9JY, Scotland
GUILLERMINA JASSO, Department of Sociology, University of Minne
sota, 909 Social Sciences, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minne
sota 55455, The United States
HUBERT JA YET, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes
Economiques, 18 boulevard Adolphe-Pinard, 75075 Paris Cedex 14,
France
CHARLES L. LEVEN, Department of Economics, Box 1208, Washing
ton University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, The United States
BARRY McCORMICK, Department of Economics, Southampton Uni
versity, Southampton S09 5NH, England
MARK R. ROSENZWEIG, Department of Economics, University of
Minnesota, 1035 Business Administration, Minneapolis, Minnesota
55455, The United States
ALAN M. SCHLOTTMANN, Department of Economics, Stokely Man
agement Center, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
37996-0550, The United States
JOHN VANDERKAMP, College of Social Science, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario NIG 2Wl, Canada
MICHAEL WAGNER, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
and Education, Lentzeallee 94, D-I000 Berlin 33, Federal Republic of
Germany
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on
Migration and Labor Market Adjustment held at the University of
Tennessee (Knoxville, U.S.A.) on October 15-17,1987.
Funds for the Conference were provided by various units of the
University of Tennessee to include the Department of Economics, College
of Business Administration, and the Office of the Provost. We are
indebted to these units for their generous support. We would also like to
thank the staff of the Management Development Center, College of
Business Administration for both hosting the Conference in their excellent
classroom facilities and assisting with Conference planning.
The Editors
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
EQUILIBRATING AND ADJUSTMENT TENDENCIES OF
INTERREGIONAL MIGRATION: AN INTRODUCTION
JOUKE VAN DUK
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
HENDRIK FOLMER
Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
HENRY W. HERZOG, JR.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee USA.
ALAN M. SCHLOTTMANN
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee USA.
In the past traditional economic theory assumed that labor force migration
is efficient, from both an individual and societal perspective. However, a
considerable body of recent empirical literature has evolved that questions
the equilibrating role of the market mechanism in redistributing labor
resources across space. Greenwood (1975), perhaps, was the first to
survey this work that challenges the efficacy of interregional labor force
migration. In this respect, he argues that research in this area is difficult to
characterize in that many of the investigations derive, or infer, implications
relevant to migration "effectiveness" in an indirect fashion from empirical
studies of related topics. Perhaps the best examples of this are the many
studies that attribute sizeable and persistent interregional (real) wage
differentials to market failures in migration. On the other hand, simultane
ous equations models of migration and labor market conditions provide
direct evidence of adjustment tendencies of interregional migration.
The study of linkage between interregional migration and labor market
adjustment spans a number of research dimensions. Such studies derive
efficiency implications from both macroeconomic and microeconomic
representations of interregional labor market process (on the bases of
macro- and microdata respectively). A brief overview of empirical findings
relevant to migration and labor market adjustment (and implied efficiency
of this process) is provided below; studies based upon interregional
macroeconomic relationships (and macro data) are discussed first and are
followed by those which derive their findings from individual labor market
Van Dijk et al. (eds.), Migration and Labour Market Adjustment, 3-20.
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