Internal Migration in the United States

By Raven S. Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, A. Wozniak. Social Science Research Network, 2011

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Internal Migration in Decline (2013, background): “The migration decline has significant implications for the operation of labor and housing markets, for individual economic attainment, and for the well-being of places (see Molloy, Smith, and Wozniak 2011; Partridge et al. 2012).”
A Search and Matching Approach to Labor Markets: Did the Natural Rate of Unemployment Rise? (2012, result): “…of 15 to 20 percent during the recovery, compared 8 This result for geographic mismatch is consistent with recent empirical papers, most notably Molloy, Smith, and Wozniak (2011) and Schulhofer-Wohl (2010), and Valletta (2010) which all fi nd a very limited role for geographic immobility of…”
China's “Great Migration”: The impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty (2019, background): “Much has been written about the impact of this event on the economies of China's trading partners, for example the United States.1 In particular, the literature provides evidence on how U.S. workers have been affected by greater Chinese competition, for example through changes in employment rates.”