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> that will move (often at personal expense!) "where the jobs are". This is often stated on HN and Reddit, but simply not true. At no time in US history has
by phil21 4y ago
> that will move (often at personal expense!) "where the jobs are".
This is often stated on HN and Reddit, but simply not true. At no time in US history has there been less internal migration. It's actually one of the major problems we have with inequality - people are demonstratively not moving to where the economic opportunity is compared to generations past.
- vageli 4y ago> > that will move (often at personal expense!) "where the jobs are". > This is often stated on HN and Reddit, but simply not true. At no time in US history has there been less internal migration. That's a pretty big claim. Do you have any data to support that? This [0] seems to tell a different story. [0]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/03/net-domestic-migration-increased-in-united-states-counties-2021.html https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/03/net-domestic-...
- phil21 4y agoI'll have to dig up some stats, but it's been a consistent pattern in my reading on the subject over the past 20 years. I'm not talking about 2019 to 2020/21 pandemic migration that your article covers. Those years will obviously be an outlier. I'm talking about long-term demographic trends over the past 100+ years. Edit: A very quick google before a series of calls today: https://www.brookings.edu/research/despite-the-pandemic-narrative-americans-are-moving-at-historically-low-rates/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/despite-the-pandemic-narr... https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.3.173 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.3.173 It's more difficult to find stats going back 150 years quickly, but the visualized data I've seen on that is pretty striking.