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

Raven Molloy, Christopher Smith and Abigail Wozniak

No 20065, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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.

JEL-codes: J0 J11 J6 N3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-04
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