%0 Report
        %A Molloy, Raven
%A Smith, Christopher L.
%A Wozniak, Abigail
        %T Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8149
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8149
        %X Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines in geographic and labor market transitions, and find the strongest support for explanations related to a decrease in the net benefit to changing employers. Our preferred interpretation is that the distribution of relevant outside offers has shifted in a way that has made labor market transitions, and thus geographic transitions, less desirable to workers.
        %K job transitions
%K labor market transitions
%K migration decline
%K migration
%K returns to tenure