The paper considers how preferences for location-specific attributes might constrain migration destination choices. The research provides an initial test of a “constrained destination choice” hypothesis by considering “locational attribute constraints” in the context of aggregate
place-to-place migration flows for U.S. metropolitan areas during the 1995-2000 time period.
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