TY - JOUR
T1 - Tracking the baby boom, the baby bust, and the echo generations
T2 - How age composition regulates us migration
AU - Plane, David
AU - Rogerson, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Conference ”The Demography of Aging” held at the State University of New York at Buffalo on March 30, 1990; at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Ontario, April 19-22,1990; and at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Regional Science Association, Victoria, BC, June 4, 1990. The support of NSF grants SEW553055 and SES8810126, the capable research assistance provided in the early stages of data preparation by JamesL owry of the University of Arizona, and the helpful comments of two anonymous referees and of the editors are gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 1991/11
Y1 - 1991/11
N2 - US regional and state migration data from the 1940s-80s, when members of the baby boom generation aged into their years of peak labor force mobility, suggest ways in which changing age composition regulates geographical mobility and interregional migration. Labor supply pressure plays a key role in the dynamics of the national migration system. A "delayed mobility" effect in the 1980s similar to the delayed fertility of the baby boom cohorts appears to be a result of the depressed rates of mobility experienced by members of this generation when they flooded regional labor markets with record numbers of entrants in the 1970s. Recent temporal shifts in age-specific volumes of interregional migration help predict the future pace of migration based upon the projected age distribution of the nation. Key Words: migration, geographic mobility, age composition, baby boom.
AB - US regional and state migration data from the 1940s-80s, when members of the baby boom generation aged into their years of peak labor force mobility, suggest ways in which changing age composition regulates geographical mobility and interregional migration. Labor supply pressure plays a key role in the dynamics of the national migration system. A "delayed mobility" effect in the 1980s similar to the delayed fertility of the baby boom cohorts appears to be a result of the depressed rates of mobility experienced by members of this generation when they flooded regional labor markets with record numbers of entrants in the 1970s. Recent temporal shifts in age-specific volumes of interregional migration help predict the future pace of migration based upon the projected age distribution of the nation. Key Words: migration, geographic mobility, age composition, baby boom.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.0033-0124.1991.00416.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0033-0124.1991.00416.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0026272999
VL - 43
SP - 416
EP - 430
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
SN - 0033-0124
IS - 4
ER -