May 21, Pia Orrenius, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a senior fellow at the SMU Dallas Texas-Mexico Center along with co-author Madeline Zavodny (North Florida), for an analysis of the pandemic impact on Texas migration and employment. Published in the Dallas Morning News under the heading Pandemic showed the way for remote workers and they are moving to Texas: https://tinyurl.com/y396wy46
The rapid rise of work-from-home and remote schooling during the pandemic prompted mass relocation to areas with more affordable housing, desirable amenities and proximity to family.
Texas was the destination of many of those movers. Despite a drop in Americans’ mobility overall during the first year of the pandemic, Texas gained residents from other states, and those increases accelerated through 2022. And while net international migration to Texas also fell during the early phases of the pandemic, it too came roaring back by 2022.
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