UNH Today

Ken Johnson, a demographer and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin, found: As the economic situation deteriorated, fewer Americans migrated. “Overall migration rates slowed to record lows during the Great Recession,” said Johnson, who also is a senior demographer at the UNH Carsey School of Public Policy. “We suspect that the recession ‘froze people in place’ with houses they couldn’t sell, retirement plans that lost value, and a precarious labor market that offered little incentive to relocate.”