{"id":4618,"date":"2012-06-20T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2012-06-20T01:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T05:48:39","slug":"why-arent-americans-as-mobile-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-arent-americans-as-mobile-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren\u2019t Americans As Mobile Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060812_0702_WhyArentAme1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The proportion of Americans that move across states has halved in the past two decades. What explains this? Brad Plumer reports on the most likely explanation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lot of analysts focus on why this might be a bad thing. Perhaps it&#8217;s a sign of America aging or perhaps it&#8217;s the recession.<\/li>\n<li>Yet data doesn&#8217;t fit these explanations. Instead it&#8217;s because of the changing nature of the job market, and the transformative influence of the internet.<\/li>\n<li>Jobs aren&#8217;t as location specific as they used to be. The service sector is more uniform than the older manufacturing sector meaning that there&#8217;s less of a reason to move.<\/li>\n<li>The internet also means that you can research a location before you move to it. Rather than moving and then looking for a job, now people find their job first and then move. This reduces the amount of needless moves.<\/li>\n<li>People also have the ability to research where they want to end up in the long run \u2013 and that&#8217;s where they move first, reducing the need to ever move.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read many more details including why this explanation makes the most sense, the role that immigrants play, why Wall Street is sort of an exception, and why there&#8217;s no need to fret, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-are-americans-moving-less-perhaps-they-dont-need-to\/2012\/05\/18\/gIQAi0L3YU_blog.html?wprss=rss_ezra-klein\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-are-americans-moving-less-perhaps-they-dont-need-to\/2012\/05\/18\/gIQAi0L3YU_blog.html?wprss=rss_ezra-klein\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/05\/assorted-links-462.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proportion of Americans that move across states has halved in the past two decades. What explains this? Brad Plumer reports on the most likely explanation. A lot of analysts focus on why this might be a bad thing. Perhaps it&#8217;s a sign of America aging or perhaps it&#8217;s the recession. Yet data doesn&#8217;t fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060812_0702_WhyArentAme1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}