Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile
利用智利全国社会经济特征调查数据，比较内部迁移者与非迁移者的经济流动性，发现多数迁移者在短期和中期内未实现经济提升，挑战了迁移促进社会流动的传统观点。
We identify internal migration flows between Chilean regions and analyse migrants’ economic mobility. A data pool from National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN) surveys was used to determine migrants’ economic position according to their income quintile. Internal migrants were matched with non-migrants of similar status from their region of origin to compare their economic mobility. Results show that the majority of internal migrants did not achieve economic advancement in the short and medium terms, which challenges the neoclassical and functionalist assumptions of a positive relationship between migration and social mobility. Finally, we identify three interregional elevators in Chile: the Austral, Norte Grande and Metropolitan macro-regions.