mobility and work
2017-08-04 15:56:45.932381+02 by
Dan Lyke
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The Great Stagnation: Americans stopped moving to find
work
The paper proposes a potential answer to a question that has nagged researchers
and political observers in the current anti-establishment wave: why people in the decaying
rust belt do not just move. According to the authors, a primary reason is state and local
zoning regulations that have increasingly slowed housing growth in the most attractive cities
since the middle of the 20th century, thus driving up real estate prices.
"The paper" is National Bureau of Economic
Research: Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined? ($5 paywall), which I
have not read.
Perhaps an older version of the paper: Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined? (PDF).
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