Title: Migration, human resource transfers, and development contexts: a logit analysis of Venezuelan data.

POPLINE Document Number: 226137

Author(s):

Brown LA
Kodras JE

Source citation:

GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS, 1987 Jul;19(3):243-63.

Abstract:

"This paper is concerned with the reciprocal relationship between migration and development in Third World settings. Using individual-level data for Venezuela, migration behavior is related to a person's age, educational attainment, gender, and characteristics of his/her place(s) of residence as an out-migrant, in-migrant, or stayer. Place characteristics are in terms of four groups based on employment patterns: the core, regional centers, resource frontiers, and traditional rural areas....The primary data source for this research is 116,672 individual records of Venezuela's 1971 Census of Population...." The authors find that development does influence migration, that incipient polarization reversal is in evidence in Venezuela in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and that places with different development characteristics generate migration streams differing in type, magnitude, explanation, and impact. It is also found that "while migration undoubtedly influences development, how is not entirely clear." (EXCERPT)

Keywords:

Venezuela
South America
Americas
Migration, Internal
Economic Development
Multivariate Analysis
Behavior
Age Factors
Sex Factors
Educational Status
Residence Characteristics
Migrants
Urban Population
Rural Population
Data Analysis
Migration
Statistical Studies
Developing Countries
South America, Northern
Latin America
Developed Countries
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Economic Factors
Research Methodology
Population Characteristics
Socioeconomic Status
Socioeconomic Factors
Population Distribution
Geographic Factors
Studies