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

本文研究考察了当劳动力市场发生结构性变化时，移民在当地劳动力市场调整中的作用。这项研究围绕着一个中心假设展开，即移民作为一种调整机制的重要性在不同的工业部门和职业之间差异很大。因此，迁入或迁出一个地区的总移民量与其说取决于就业的总变化，不如说是取决于这种变化在不同工业或职业类别中的分布。因此，这项研究关注移徙与地方调整之间的平衡，其结果将有助于深入了解地方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.