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- Title
A NOTE ON DIFFERENTIAL NET MIGRATION AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE.
- Authors
Larson, David A.; Wilford, Walton T.
- Abstract
The article presents the authors view on an article by economist Ben-Chieh Liu, related to differential net migration and the quality of life, in which Liu presented a social indicators approach to construct a quality of life (QOL) index. Liu used his composite index to explain differential net migration rates. The explanatory variable, the QOL, was comprised of nine individual categories. The correlation matrix for Liu's nine input variables indicated that the components of his QOL index were highly correlated. As a result it was appropriate to disaggregate the QOL index with respect to the economic status (ES) variable, particularly since Liu's novel conclusion was that economic motivation as measured by ES was relatively unimportant in explaining net interstate migration-especially nonwhite migration. In this article the authors construct a new QOL index (QOL8) based on the remaining eight heterogeneous categories utilizing the method of principal components heterogeneous categories utilizing the method of principal components. The inference of the study conducted by the authors show that if all of Liu's variables except one-ES-are combined into a composite index by principal components, the resulting regression migration rates on the QOL8 yields results that are statistically indistinguishable from those obtained by the use of the original Liu Overall Index.
- Subjects
BEN-Chieh Liu; SOCIAL status; ECONOMIC indicators; INCOME; QUALITY of life; EMIGRATION &; immigration; ECONOMIC models; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Review of Economics & Statistics, 1980, Vol 62, Issue 1, p157
- ISSN
0034-6535
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1924292