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Article: Interstate migration: a test of competing interpretations.
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- Policy Studies Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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This study presents a model of net interstate migration in the United States during the 1970s. Of 5 composite dimensions derived from an exploratory factor analysis of 20 candidate predictors of interstate migration, the greatest predictive power in an ordinary least squares regression analysis is attained by a set of quality-of-life correlates of migration. Composites of fiscal policy and labor relations variables, more controllable by public decisionmakers, are also significant.
The analysis of migration patterns within the United States has been the object of considerable controversy, particularly in the context of studies of economic development. A number ...