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Domestic migrant responses to geographically concentrated immigration flows play central roles in determining the local economic impacts of immigration and the geography of the ethnic composition of the population. Possible motivations for domestic migrant responses include: increased labor market competition associated with new immigrants and ethnic or cultural avoidance. We use US annual state-to-state migration flows from the Internal Revenue Service to assess the existence and nature of the link between geographically concentrated immigration and domestic migration. We find some evidence of a domestic migrant response to immigrants, particularly to greater cumulative shares of the foreign born, which we interpret as providing some support of the ethnic or cultural avoidance hypothesis.
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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the AEDE Regional Economics Seminar at Ohio State University, KNAW immigration workshop at Free University and the Western Regional Science Association Meetings in the invited sessions in honor of Gordon Mulligan organized by John Carruthers.
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Ali, K., Partridge, M.D. & Rickman, D.S. International immigration and domestic out-migrants: are domestic migrants moving to new jobs or away from immigrants?. Ann Reg Sci 49, 397–415 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-011-0456-2
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