Kaplan, Greg; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We analyze the secular decline in interstate migration in the United States between 1991 and 2011. Gross flows of …. We argue that the fall in migration is due to a decline in the geographic specicity of returns to occupations, together … on rates of repeat migration. Other explanations, including compositional changes, regional changes, and the rise in real …