Information and Subsequent Migration: Further Analysis and Additional Evidence

In a recent issue of this journal Anthony M. J. Yezer and Lawrence Thurston extend the human capital model of human migration to include an analytical framework for subsequent migration. Subsequent migration is migration following an initial move and includes both return migration and migration to a third location. Yezer and Thurstons extension of the human capital model is accurate and useful. It allows analysis of the subsequent migration decision to be brought into formal economic theory; concomitantly it increases the explanatory power of the theory. And it yields a number of testable hypotheses several of which were tested by the authors. This note extends the analysis corrects a mistake and provides some additional evidence. (excerpt)