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Population aging, migration spillovers, and the decline in interstate migration

Karahan, Fatih; Rhee, Serena - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role of the aging population in this long-run decline. We argue that demographic changes trigger a general equilibrium effect in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of...

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Job search behavior over the business cycle

Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Sahin, Aysegul; Patterson, Christina - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

We create a novel measure of job search effort starting in 1994 by exploiting the overlap between the Current Population Survey and the American Time Use Survey. We examine the cyclical behavior of aggregate job search effort using time series and cross-state variation and find that it is...

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Why did the average duration of unemployment become so much longer?

Mukoyama, Toshihiko (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This paper examines the causes of the observed increase in the average duration of unemployment over the past thirty … in the generosity and coverage of unemployment insurance. We find that changes in the composition of the labor force and … institutional changes can only partially account for the longer duration of unemployment. We construct a job search model and …

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