Why did newly freed slaves and their descendants wait a half century before migrating in large numbers to the superior economic opportunities in the North? Census lifetime migration data on both movers and stayers are examined intertemporally for both whites and blacks. Regression analysis...

Mobility patterns of the elderly provide a particularly interesting theoretical sub-case of a more general migration model which interacts individual-specific traits (e.g., health and retirement status) and location-specific traits (e.g., amenities, rents, and wages). The spatially invariant...

We summarize a considerable body of recent literature on the role of amenities in regional growth and decline, finding amenities to be of increasing importance to the growth and decline of regions. It is likely that amenity forces become more important as the development process proceeds

Why do people live, work, and play where they do? How much, why, and between what points do people migrate, temporarily and permanently? These are relatively simple questions, but the answers are much less clear and do not fall neatly into one field of knowledge. Because choices are involved,...

A consumption theory of migration is developed which supplements the traditional job search models. Migration, seen as an equilibrating reaction to an initially non-optimal location, is analyzed using standard demand theory. When one groups goods into those that are traded between areas and...