Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Yu, Sherry
Area of Concentration
Economics
Abstract
This thesis examines two prominent trends recently developed in the US labor market: declining internal migration and increasing inefficiency of matching. To explore the underlying causes of these trends, we adopt an empirical approach to evaluate how education, social factors, economic conditions and other demographic variables affect internal migration. We use a cross-section logit model to examine the marginal effects of independent variables on the probability of moving out-of-state. Data from the Current Population Survey years 2000 to 2018 is used to conduct this study. Our findings suggest that college degrees and graduate degrees are becoming less attractive to firms and may contribute to declining mobility in the labor market. The effect of each variable is also found to be moving closer to zero as geographic mobility declines.
Recommended Citation
Lang, Abigail, "MOVING AND SCHOOLING: A STUDY OF DECLINING MOBILITY" (2019). Theses & ETDs. 5732.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/5732