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Right to buy... time to move? : investigating the effect of the right to buy on moving behaviour in the UK
Ham, Maarten van; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - 2010
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796487
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Types of spatial mobility and the ethnic context of destination neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi; Leetmaa, Kadri; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, different types of moves may result in neighbourhood environments that differ in terms of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428182
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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour
Coulter, Rory; Ham, Maarten van - 2011
Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521186
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Does migration make you happy? : a longitudinal study of internal migration and subjective well-being
Nowok, Beata; Ham, Maarten van; Findlay, Allan M.; … - 2011
The majority of modelling studies on consequences of internal migration focus almost exclusively on the labour market outcomes and the material well-being of migrants. We investigate whether individuals who migrate within the UK become happier after the move than they were before it and whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521198
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Understanding the effects of homeownership and regional unemployment levels on migration during the economic crisis in Spain
Palomares-Linares, Isabel; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high percentage of homeownership, with more than 83 …% of households being owner-occupiers. Both regional levels of unemployment and homeownership are known to be important … (2001 and 2011) to study the effect of homeownership and regional unemployment levels on both short and long distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543200
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Population decline in Lithuania : who lives in declining regions and who leaves?
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges to politicians, policy makers and planners. This study aims to get more insight into the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528102
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Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis
Zwiers, Merle; Bolt, Gideon; Ham, Maarten van; Kempen, … - 2014
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463411
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The effects of physical restructuring on the socioeconomic status of neighborhoods : selective migration and upgrading
Zwiers, Merle; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2017
In the last few decades, urban restructuring programs have been implemented in many Western European cities with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighborhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been housing diversification and tenure mixing. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641495
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Income increase and moving to a better neighbourhood : an enquiry into ethnic differences in Finland
Vaalavuo, Maria; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants' opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less disadvantaged neighbourhoods are important. This paper adds to existing research on exits from poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737509
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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten van - 2011
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516901