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Title: Smart City, Life-cycle Migration and Falling Mobility since the 1980s

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Young workers start their first jobs in big cities where they would be able to experience more rapid wage growth. After labor force entry, workers leave big cities for less populated areas. If the wage growth premium in these big cities increases, they relocate there in later stages of their work lives. This paper suggests that the typical life-cycle migration pattern, together with the increase in the dynamic benefits from agglomeration economies in larger locations since the 1980s, provide another explanation for falling internal mobility in the U.S. over the past three decades. The estimates suggest that, for the age cohort 27-35 in my sample, the changes in wage growth differentials of MSAs for labor force entry alone can account for about 74 % and 33% of the actual declines in inter-MSA migration rates during the 1980-1990 and 1980-2000 time periods, respectively.

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Authors: Wang, Zhi

Publisher: Brown University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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