Dust, Andrew; Orazem, Peter; Wohlgemuth, Darin - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008
native population growth to the economic incentives offered by rural counties in the Midwest and the South. We find that in … immigrant population in these nontraditional rural destinations is not tied to concentrations of existing immigrant populations …. Rural immigrant population growth is more responsive than native populations to economic incentives and immigrant growth is …