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dc.contributor.authorBayer, Christianen
dc.contributor.authorJuessen, Falkoen
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-05-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:28:52Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:28:52Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/34776-
dc.description.abstractThis paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise from the endogeneity of location choice and the persistency of migration incentives. Keeping track of the distribution of migration incentives over time has important consequences for the econometrical treatment, because the dynamics of this distribution influences the estimation of structural parameters, such as migration costs. For US interstate migration, we obtain a cost estimate of less than one-half of an average annual household income. This is substantially smaller than the migration costs estimated by previous studies. We attribute this difference to the treatment of the dynamic self-selection problem.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3330en
dc.subject.jelC61en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordDynamic self-selectionen
dc.subject.keywordmigrationen
dc.subject.keywordindirect inferenceen
dc.subject.stwBinnenwanderungen
dc.subject.stwKostenen
dc.subject.stwWohnstandorten
dc.subject.stwDynamisches Modellen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleOn the dynamics of interstate migration: migration costs and self-selection-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn560201125en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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