Citation

Brittain AW. Int. Migr. Rev. 1990; 24(4): 703-721.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Center for Migration Studies, New York, Inc., Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

Individuals often make migration decisions on the basis of economic circumstances. In the United States, increased competition for jobs in large cohorts apparently led to reduced migration to large cities. In rural areas, greater competition for local resources might increase pressures to emigrate for members of large cohorts. But data from St. Barthelemy, French West Indies show that, for people born from 1878 to 1967, neither cohort size nor fluctuations in external demands for labor had a lasting effect on the probability of eventual migration. Emigration rates only slowed after the development of the local tourist industry brought prosperity to the island.

Language: en