Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stability

Schleicher, David

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“…These distinctions are worthy of closer-scale examination of potential explanations, for example policies that reduce barriers for newcomers (Schleicher 2017), and the impacts of newcomers on land use and future development (Linkous 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tracking Urbanization and Exurbs: Migration Across the Rural–Urban Continuum, 1990–2016

Golding

Winkler

2020

Popul Res Policy Rev

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This paper summarizes annual migration patterns across the rural-urban continuum in the USA between 1990 and 2016. We introduce a modified rural-urban continuum classification, the Rural-Urban Gradient (RUG). The RUG holds metropolitan classification constant, effectively designates exurbs, and distinguishes central city core counties in major metropolitan areas from their suburbs and exurbs. The RUG is used to compare, over time and across regions, net migration, and migration efficiency using annual county-level data from the Internal Revenue Service. Results show how migration patterns correlated with changes in demographics and housing depending on counties' location along the RUG. We also describe the extent to which rural migration flows converged in counties at metropolitan peripheries and concentrated in the South and West, thus shaping widening disparity across US rural contexts.

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Tracking Urbanization and Exurbs: Migration Across the Rural–Urban Continuum, 1990–2016

Golding

Winkler

2020

Popul Res Policy Rev

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“…While the increasing regulation of international borders receives the most attention, the regulation of other types of internal mobility—even in countries like the United States where the premise is of unhindered movement—is already quite high and increasing. For example, child custody agreements frequently restrict the interstate migration of divorced parents (Cooke, Mulder, and Thomas ), zoning in growing cities reduces in‐migration from declining regions by constraining housing supply and raising house prices (see Schleicher ), and the military dictates the movements of both “soldiers” and their families (see Cooke and Speirs ). Many of these regulatory effects are either idiosyncratic or indirect, but in the aggregate they likely have a significant dampening effect on internal migration.…”

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A Prospective on Zelinsky's Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition

Cooke

Wright

Ellis

2018

Geographical Review

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Wilbur Zelinsky's 1971 paper in Geographical Review entitled the “Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition” was both forward‐looking and offered innovative ideas regarding human geographic mobility. One of the most interesting aspects of the paper was a set of predictions for mobility in a “future superadvanced society”. Many of these predictions have now come to pass, including a general decline in international and internal migration and residential change, the increasing regulation of migration ‐ especially internally, and the possibility that the widespread adoption of information and communication technologies has impacted human geographic mobility. Hence, this essay looks at the mobility transition not as an obsolete frame of reference but as a prescient, pliable, and adaptable framework which not only informs the study of human geographic mobility today but also, perhaps, even into the future.

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“…Constraints on housing supply, whether natural impediments like oceans and mountains or policy choices like zoning regulations, drive up the cost of living in desirable areas and make it difficult for the less affluent to live there (Ganong and Shoag 2017;Gyourko et al 2013). There are also numerous legal barriers to interstate migration, including state occupational licensing schemes, public benefit systems, and property laws (Schleicher 2017). Constraints on migration slow the equilibration of the economy, preventing workers from leaving low-wage areas to move to high-wage ones.…”

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“…Regional income divergence is a major economic and social challenge for the United States. It makes formulating federal economic policy difficult, since one federal budget and interest rate must meet the needs of rich and poor regions simultaneously (Schleicher 2017). It may also contribute to the country's large regional variation in upward mobility rates (Chetty et al 2014), since the economic conditions of children's communities strongly affect their prospects in life (Chetty and Hendren 2016;Sampson 2012;Sharkey and Faber 2014;Wilson 1987).…”

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Unifying National Income Inequality and Regional Economic Divergence

Manduca¹

2018

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After more than a century of convergence, the economic fortunes of rich and poor regions of the United States have diverged dramatically since 1980. The richest cities now have per capita incomes almost 40% greater than the nation as a whole, while the poorest ones have incomes 25% smaller. In this paper I use counterfactual simulations based on Census microdata to understand the dynamics of regional divergence. I first show that regional divergence has largely resulted from the richest people and places pulling away from the rest of the country. I then estimate the relative contributions to regional divergence of two major socioeconomic trends of the last 40 years: the sorting of people across metro areas by income level and the national rise in income inequality. I show that the national rise in income inequality is sufficient on its own to account for more than half of the observed divergence across regions, while income sorting on its own accounts for less than a quarter. The major driver of regional economic divergence is national-level income dispersion that has exacerbated preexisting spatial inequalities.

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Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stability

Cited by 17 publications

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Tracking Urbanization and Exurbs: Migration Across the Rural–Urban Continuum, 1990–2016

Tracking Urbanization and Exurbs: Migration Across the Rural–Urban Continuum, 1990–2016

A Prospective on Zelinsky's Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition

Unifying National Income Inequality and Regional Economic Divergence

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