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The Wage Dynamics of Internal Migration within the United States

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  • Jeffrey Yankow

    (Department of Economics, The Ohio State University)

Abstract

Using an extended panel of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), this study demonstrates that young interstate migrants receive significant positive returns to geographic mobility. Pecuniary returns generally accumulate over a five year period following migration, during which migrants experience superior wage growth vis-a-vis non-migrants. Fixed-effects estimates suggest that migrants collect a post-migration wage premium of nearly 5 percent. Because fixed-effects estimation accounts for correlation between migration and unobservable individual-specific characteristics (typically referred to as "ability"), the positive effect of migration on wages can not be explained by the hypothesis that the migrant sample are drawn from the upper tail of the ability distribution.

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  • Jeffrey Yankow, 1999. "The Wage Dynamics of Internal Migration within the United States," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 25(3), pages 265-278, Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:eej:eeconj:v:25:y:1999:i:3:p:265-278
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    9. Andrea Cutillo & Claudio Ceccarelli, 2010. "The internal relocation premium: are migrants positively or negatively selected? Evidence from Italy," Working Papers in Public Economics 137, Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Roma.
    10. Robert A. Nakosteen & Olle Westerlund & Michael Zimmer, 2008. "Migration And Self‐Selection: Measured Earnings And Latent Characteristics," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(4), pages 769-788, October.
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    Keywords

    Geographic Mobility; Migrant; Migration; Mobility; Wage;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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