Karahan, Fatih; Rhee, Serena - 2014
Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …