Labor Mobility in Three Southern States

As most students of the labor market know, comparable data on migration and mobility of workers over time and from place to place are not available in the form and detail often desired for research. One source which is reasonably free of the usual problems of comparability, though limited in some other respects, is the data available in the records of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. The usefulness of these data for the study of labor mobility is illustrated by the results of the study reported in this article. The article describes the rates of mobility and certain characteristics of mobile workers in three southern states and compares these findings with those of a study by Donald J. Bogue in Michigan and Ohio in 1947. Labor flows between the three-state area and the rest of the nation are analyzed, and tests of hypotheses about the effect of distance moved on the age, sex, and race composition of the mobility stream are also reported. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)

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