The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak …. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of …

inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states … than in EU15 member states. Also in contrast to the EU15 member states migration has fallen in candidate countries and new … member states. This casts doubt on the viability of migration as an adjustment mechanism. Estimating place to place models of …