Doctoral Dissertation Research: U.S. Internal Migration as a Response to the Economic Restructuring of Labor Market Areas' Space-Economies: 1985-1990

本论文的研究探讨了当当地劳动力市场经历结构性变化时，移民在调整当地劳动力市场中所起的作用。这项研究围绕一个核心假设展开，即移徙作为一种调整机制的重要性在各工业部门和职业之间有很大差异。因此，流入或流出一个地方的移民总量与其说取决于就业的总体变化，不如说取决于这种变化在不同产业或职业类别中的分布。 因此，这项研究关注的是移徙与当地调整之间的平衡，研究结果将有助于深入了解当地空间经济的结构变化。

This dissertation research examines the role that migration plays in the adjustment of local labor markets when those labor markets experience structural changes. The research is organized around one central hypothesis, which states that the importance of migration as an adjustment mechanism varies widely across industrial sectors and occupations. Thus, the total amount of migration into or out of a local area depends not so much on the total change in employment as on the distribution of that change over different industrial or occupational categories. The study is therefore concerned with the balance between migration and local adjustments, and the results will provide insight into structural changes in local space economies.