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The ability to move to find new work has long been a comerstone of the American Dream.There is growing concern that being stuck in place contributes to higher levels of unemployment Our analysis, therefore, finds no correlation whatsoever between the percentage of residents who were born in a state and either the overall rate of unemployment and its change over the past year.(1)____(2)____ There is also no correlation between it and the level of income inequality. States with higher percentages of home grown up residents do however have higher poverty rates.(3)____ State mobility appears to be related to residents' perceptions of their future economic conditions. The percentage of residents born in a state is closely associated with the percentage of people in the state who see the economy getting worse and negatively associated with the percentage who perceive the economy to be getting better.(4)____ This likely reflects a difference in the levels of income and skins what underlie these divergent perceptions about the economy.(5)____
State-level mobility is also associated with key dimensions of health and well-being. Low mobility states have higher levels of obesity and smoking and higher levels of happiness and well-being.(6)____ The percentage of residents born in a state is positively correlated with smoking and obesity, as well as deaths from cardiovascular disease, heart disease, and cancer.(7)____ Converse, the level of happiness or subjective well-being is negatively associated with the percentage of residents born in a state.(8)____ And many have focused on the economic effects of mobility, our analysis suggests it play an important role in health and happiness as well.(9)____(10)____
