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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Glavni avtor: Bayoumi, Tamim
Drugi avtorji: Barkema, Jelle
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/122
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF