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Title: Declining Migration within the U.S.: The Role of the Labor Market

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2014

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DOI: 10.3386/w20065

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Abstract: Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines in geographic and labor market transitions, and find the strongest support for explanations related to a decrease in the net benefit to changing employers. Our preferred interpretation is that the distribution of relevant outside offers has shifted in a way that has made labor market transitions, and thus geographic transitions, less desirable to workers.

Url: https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/96704

Url: https://www.federalreserve.gov/PUBS/feds/2013/201327/201327pap.pdf

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20065.pdf

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Authors: Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; Wozniak, Abigail K.

Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 8149

Institution: IZA

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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