Are highly educated workers better at locating in areas with high labor demand? To answer
this question, I use three decades of US Census data to estimate a McFadden-style model of …

This paper examines the history of internal migration in the United States since the 1980s. By
most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low. The widespread …

Interstate migration in the United States has decreased steadily since the 1980s, but little is
known about the causes of this decline. We show that declining migration is related to a …

A common assumption is that the rise of drug testing among US employers must have had
negative consequences for black employment. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug …

Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not
primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be …

This article establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation:
long-distance migration rates within the United States. Combining evidence from a number of …

… Abigail Wozniak is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, …
May 2013 after publication through April 2016 from Abigail Wozniak (a_wozniak@nd.edu). …

In this paper, we first document a clear, downward trend in labor market fluidity that is common
across a variety of measures of worker and job turnover. This trend began in the early …

We exploit exogenous variation in years of completed college induced by draft-avoidance
behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college on adult mortality. Our …

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal
migration in the United States. We begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals’ …