Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions
回顾了美国近几十年移民与本土居民的国内迁移趋势，发现移民对地方经济条件的迁移响应强于本土居民，这源于其对价格敏感度低、移民初期迁移倾向高以及早期移民聚集城市的经济成功。
In this article, we review the internal geographic mobility of immigrants and natives in the United States in the recent decades, with a focus on the period since 2000. We confirm a continuing secular decline in mobility already pointed out by the existing literature, and we show that it persisted in the post great recession period. We then focus on foreign-born and establish that, on average, they did not have total mobility rates higher than that of natives. However, their mobility response to local economic conditions was stronger than the response of natives in the period from 1980 to 2017. A review of recent research reveals that the higher elasticity of mobility of immigrants to economic conditions is a combination of lower sensitivity to local prices, higher propensity to move in the early years after immigration, and strong economic success of cities that were immigrant enclaves in the 1980s.