Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location‐Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males
利用二十年间成年男性的迁移决策数据，估计州际迁移的风险函数，发现原目的地实际工资差异和迁移固定成本显著降低迁移风险，而高犯罪率虽提高实际工资却单独增加迁移风险。
This article presents econometric estimates of the adult working‐age male hazard function of interstate migration fitted to data obtained from migration decisions of adult males over a twenty‐year period. The results show a strong negative effect of the real wage difference between origin and destination, and of fixed costs associated with a move, on the hazard rate of interstate migration. Farmers and other self‐employed males, and males who have school‐age children, have unusually low hazard rates of interstate migration. Although a high crime rate is shown to increase the real wage, it also has a separate positive effect on the hazard of migration.