Migration Determinants and Employment Consequences of White and Black Families, 1985–1990*
利用1990年PUMS数据，研究1985-1990年间美国白人和黑人家庭跨州迁移的决定因素及就业后果，发现社会经济和环境因素对两类家庭影响不同，黑人家庭更看重预期经济收益，且妻子就业在迁移决策中作用小于丈夫。
Abstract: This study examines the determinants and employment consequences of white and black family interstate migration within the United States during the period 1985–90. We pay particular attention to selecting intact family migrants from the 1990 PUMS data to eliminate couples who migrated from different origins. Migration status is treated as a selection process and is incorporated into the employment opportunity models. We show that various socioenvironmental and fiscal factors are significantly and disproportionately associated with the location choices of family migrants for both whites and blacks. Expected economic benefits are more important to destination choices by black families than they are for white families. Consistent with traditional family migration theory, the employment prospects of migrant wives seem to play a lesser role than the husbands' employment in family migration decisions for both blacks and whites.