| Author(s) | KhaIid L AIdakhil |
| Affiliation | Department of Economic.f, College {!f Administrative Sciences King Saud University, P.O. Box 2459, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Title | Two Simultaneous-equations Models of Employment and Age-specific Migration |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Administrative Sciences. Volume 11, No 2. (1999/1419) |
| Abstract | This paper compares and tests two different model specifications of employment and age-specific migration. One specification deals with out- and-in migration as the dependent variables, while the other deals with the net migration as the dependent variables. The migration variable in both models is disaggregated into two-age-specific groups, young and old. The sample employed in this study consists of 62 SMSAs in 32 states distributed in the four main regions of the U.S.A. The two models have been estimated in double-logarithmic form using the three-stage least squares (3LS) method. The empirical results indicate that the use of in-and-out-migration variable is more appropriate than the use of a variable relating to net-migration. Moreover, the results support the hypothesis of the causal relationship between migration of each age group and employment growth rates and the hypothesis of the opposite direction movement between the out-and-in-migration variables. Finally, the major finding of this study, which has not been shown before, is that the total employment increased by the same amount as the young migrant's contribution to it and by less than the old migrant's contribution to it. |
