Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51616 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5903
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of all distances. Although a convincing explanation for the secular decline in migration remains elusive and requires further research, we find only limited roles for the housing market contraction and the economic recession in reducing migration recently. Despite its downward trend, migration within the US remains higher than that within most other developed countries.
Subjects: 
internal migration
migration trends
housing crisis
U.S. recession
cross-country comparisons
JEL: 
J61
R23
J1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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