Molloy, Raven; Smith, Christopher L.; Wozniak, Abigail - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 25 (2011) 3, pp. 173-96
This paper examines the history of internal migration in the United States since the 1980s. By most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low. The widespread decline in migration rates across a large number of subpopulations suggests that broad-based economic forces...