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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Hlavní autor: Bayoumi, Tamim
Další autoři: Barkema, Jelle
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/122
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF