Migrants from High-Cost, Large Metro Areas during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Their Destinations, and How Many Could Follow

Stephan Whitaker

Cleveland Fed District Data Brief from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: This data brief presents estimates of the number of people who have already migrated from the high-cost, large population centers to lower-cost and less-populated regions during the pandemic. It also presents the potential impacts on lower-cost regions that might receive more remote workers.2 Migration away from high-cost, large metro areas did spike during the pandemic. Even if the percentage of remote workers following these recent migration patterns is small, the number of these workers may be large enough to provide other regions the opportunity to substantially grow their workforces.

Keywords: remote work; urban migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-03-25
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-ddb-20210325

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