本研究旨在探討遷移現象中「遷移者的個人相關特徵」與「各類都市階層」的關係，並以「終生遷移」之定義，討論終生遷移有何種特殊的選擇性。爰此，本研究提出了三種討論遷移行為的架構。首先探討遷移者與未遷移者之差異性，並討論發生遷移者的個人特徵；其次，探討選擇不同階層都市作為遷入地之遷移者有何差異性；第三，則分析遷移者所選擇之遷移流向，並討論遷移流向的選擇性。使用之研究方法為多項羅吉特模型，利用此方式進行各類遷移選擇的模型建構。
除了探討上述遷移行為的選擇性外，本研究再討論遷移行為是否存在「性別差異」及「世代差異」。因此提出了二個假說「男性之遷移行為並不同於女性之遷移行為」及「世代相異會造成遷移行為的不同」，並於實證時進行檢驗假說的正確性。而實證結果顯示，「男性」及「女性」僅在遷移行為的發生上，存在顯著的不同；而相異的「世代」部分，則在三種遷移行為的模型上都呈現顯著差異的情形。

This study aims at the relation between "urban hierarchy" and "the characteristic of the person who migrates" in the migration phenomenon, and uses the data of “lifetime migration”, and discusses the special migration selection. Therefore, this study establishes three kinds of research structure to discuss migration behaviors. At first, we confer on the difference of the persons who migrate or not, and discuss that the personal characteristic of the person who migrates. Secondly, we confer on the difference of the persons who choose different urban hierarchies. Third, we analyze that the migration streams that the person who chooses, and discuss the migration selection of the migration streams. And this study adopts Multinomial Logit Model to analyze all the migration behaviors.
After discusses the above-mentioned the selections of migration behaviors, we do more research on different Genders and Generations. Thus we propose two hypotheses. The first one is "the migration behaviors between male and female are different." The second one is "the migration behaviors on different generations are not alike." The empirical results indicate that, "male" and "female" are only different in migration or not migration. And different "generations" have different migration behaviors at three models.

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