Has the decline in the intensity of internal migration been accompanied by changes in reasons for migration?

Abstract The last few decades have seen the intensity of internal migration decline in Australia and other advanced economies including United States. Recent evidence suggests that changes composition population alone do not account for this persistent downward trend. This has led scholars to suspect more profound behavioural driven by social, economic, technological transformations are at play shifts behaviour likely be reflected reasons migration. We use data from Household, Income Labour Dynamics survey shed new light on factors driving between 2002 2018. is done examining annual trends self-reported intrastate interstate applying a series pooled logistic regressions. Results reveal across all migration, only employment-related contrary explanations proposed extant literature. does appear result rise alternative forms mobility such as teleworking or substitution with inter-industry occupation mobility. Furthermore, we also find negative effect duration residence increased family-related Collectively, these findings suggest change, particularly place attachment, may contributed