Dwindling U.S. internal migration: Evidence of spatial equilibrium or structural shifts in local labor markets?

Partridge, Mark D.; Rickman, Dan S.; Olfert, M. Rose; Ali, Kamar

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2011.10.006

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“…While future migration will likely be a first-order driver of U.S. adaptation, we now lack key knowledge that would help us forecast its role decades in advance. Similarly, CC costs will be higher if the post-2000 decline in migration responses to economic shocks remains permanent (Partridge et al, 2012). (Yet migration responses to amenities are mostly unchanged.)…”

Section: Other Migration Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration

Partridge

Feng

Rembert

2017

American Economic Review

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Manmade climate change (CC) has catastrophic consequences. The United States has already experienced wholesale population realignment due to climate as households have relocated to the Sunbelt and West. The irony is that people are moving toward the heat and major storms associated with CC. As CC intensifies, with high rates of internal US factor mobility, firms and households will likely again relocate to areas with higher utility and profits, reducing CC costs. Yet current research typically focuses on CC costs in a given location without considering this realignment. We propose several avenues to overcome such shortcomings in US CC modeling.

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Section: Other Migration Issuesmentioning

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Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration

Partridge

Feng

Rembert

2017

American Economic Review

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“…Florida 2002, Ferguson et al 2007, Partridge 2010, Rodríguez-Pose, Ketterer 2012. The beauty and accessibility of the natural environment or the vibrancy of a region's cultural life has been highlighted as potentially a key component in the attraction of talent and skills (Partridge 2010), although this role may be waning (Partridge et al 2012). …”

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Do we follow the money? The drivers of migration across regions in the EU

Rodríguez‐Pose¹,

Ketterer

Castells‐Quintana³

2015

REGION

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Abstract. Most immigration theories tend to highlight that migration follows wealth and economic dynamism, but is this also the case across regions in Europe? The aim of the paper is to investigate whether migrants in Europe indeed follow the money, and to contrast this with a variety of potential alternative explanations, including the presence of migrants from a similar origin. The analysis is based on panel data estimations including 133 European regions over a time period of 17 years. Different lag structures have been employed in order to distinguish between short-and longrun effects. The results cast some doubt about the prominence of pecuniary factors as determinants of cross-regional migration in Europe, with little evidence to support the idea that migration follows economic dynamism. Network effects, human capital related-, and territorially embedded innovation enhancing regional characteristics, by contrast, seem to play a much stronger role than hitherto considered.

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“…If human capital is not easily taken to the new occupation or work, this accumulation can decrease migration due to the increased cost of moving from the home region. In the United States, population level migration rates have also declined dramatically since the end of the 1990s (Partridge et al, 2012).…”

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R&D subsidies and productivity in SMEs

Karhunen

Huovari

2015

Small Bus Econ

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This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter and four separate empirical studies which study higher education and productivity in Finland. Introductory chapter presents shortly the motivation, background and main results of this thesis. First three articles focus on the relationship between working while studying, dropout behavior and later labor market outcomes at individual level. Fourth article examines how subsidies affect labor productivity at the firm level.The first article of this thesis studies how working while studying relates to earnings after graduation from university or polytechnic. Analysis focuses on working while studying and earnings over two year period after graduation. The results show that early work experience is related to higher earnings right after graduation year, but instrumental variable estimations find no significant causal effect for university students.The second article explores on the relationship between working while studying and migration. Migration propensities are studied up to three years after graduation. Results show that working while studying can partly explain why the mobility of highly educated people has declined. We find that that there are differences by study region and earlier migration behavior.The third article examines the relationship between the decision to drop out from university and labor market outcomes. Results indicate that compared to similar university graduates, the dropouts' annual earnings are on average 11,000 euros lower four years after the dropout decision. Dropouts have also a higher probability of being self-employed than similar graduates.The fourth article examines the effect of R&D subsidies on labour productivity. Study uses firm-level data on Finnish SMEs from 2000 to 2012 and apply a combined matching and difference-in-differences method to control for selection bias. Study does not find significant positive effect on labour productivity over the five-year period after a subsidy is granted.

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Dwindling U.S. internal migration: Evidence of spatial equilibrium or structural shifts in local labor markets?

Cited by 158 publications

References 42 publications

Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration

Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration

Do we follow the money? The drivers of migration across regions in the EU

R&D subsidies and productivity in SMEs

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