Chain migration and information networks: Evidence from nineteenth-century Hesse-Cassel

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wegge, SA
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700021689
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 957-986
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; international migration; settlement-patterns; serial-correlation; immigration; famine; emigration

摘要

Chain migration was an important factor in European migrants' decisions in the nineteenth century. This article demonstrates that previous migrations have long-run effects and continue to impact the decisions of future migrants for many years. Chain migration produces not only more migration but different migrants. Migrants from over 1,300 different German villages are classified as networked and non-networked. The most definitive results from comparing the two types of migrants are the figures on cash assets because they support the model's prediction that socially networked migrants needed less cash than non-networked migrants to accomplish their migration goals.