Geographic Mobility

people's ability and willingness to move

• crossing country borders is emigration/immigration

a significant path to income mobility?

has dropped significantly in the US

• https://www.econlib.org/archives/2013/01/americans_used.html
• https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/04/why-is-mobility-declining.html
• one factor: increased home ownership?
• https://reason.com/2017/01/13/why-arent-more-americans-movin1/
• https://www.thirdway.org/report/stuck-in-place-what-lower-geographic-mobility-means-for-economic-opportunity
• https://conversableeconomist.com/2023/08/10/america-not-so-much-on-the-move/
• https://legallysociable.com/2025/02/11/argument-the-sharp-decline-in-geographic-mobility-is-the-single-most-important-social-change-of-the-past-half-century/
• https://reason.com/2016/12/10/why-dont-people-who-are-stuck-in-depressed-appalachian-towns-just-leave/
• https://reason.com/2018/01/09/if-rural-americans-are-being-left-behind/