Stranded! : How Rising Inequality Suppressed US Migration and Hurt Those Left Behind /

Using bilateral data on migration across US metro areas, we find strong evidence that increasing house price and income inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more prosperous location, lower mobility is driven by inc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bayoumi, Tamim
Other Authors: Barkema, Jelle
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/122
Online Access:Full text available on IMF