TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Molloy, Raven
AU  - Smith, Christopher L.
AU  - Wozniak, Abigail
        TI  - Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
        PY  - 2014/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8149
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8149
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - job transitions
KW  - labor market transitions
KW  - migration decline
KW  - migration
KW  - returns to tenure
        ER  -