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Proposes a life course framework as an explanatory schema in the study of multiple residence and recurrent mobility. Literature relating to multiple residence and cyclical movements; Types of multiple residence associated with life course transitions and stages; Prevalence of selected types of multiple residence by age and other socio-demographic measures.

Identifies short-term fluctuations in the interstate migration system with the use of annual state-to-state migration flow data from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records. Background on the study; IRS migration data; Migration efficiency measures; Migration efficiency and economic performance; Geographic patterns of migration efficiency.

This paper presents and tests a regression-based model of black interstate migration. Explanatory variables include characteristics of origins and destinations, distance, and two migrant stock measures. The model is tested using black interstate migration flows published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for 1965-70 and 1975-80. Three findings stand out. Firstly, the stock measures are strong determinants of black migration. They tap behavioral processes that channelize black migration streams, including information flows through familial and social networks and return migration. Secondly, the migrant stock measures attenuate effects of other explanatory variables indicating that other variables influence current migration both directly and indirectly through the stock measures. Thirdly, changes in coefficients of explanatory variables between the two periods reflect shifts in black migration patterns that occurred during the 1970s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]