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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi - 2016
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...
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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten - 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...
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Does migration make you happy? A longitudinal study of internal migration and subjective well-being
Nowok, Beata; van Ham, Maarten; 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...
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Understanding the Effects of Homeownership and Regional Unemployment Levels on Migration During the Economic Crisis in Spain
Palomares-Linares, Isabel - 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 …
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Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; van Ham, Maarten; Burneika, Donatas - 2014
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in post-socialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on the population decline of capital cities and their regions, much less is known about the spatial dimension of population decline on the...
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Right to buy... time to move? Investigating the effect of the right to buy on moving behaviour in the UK
van Ham, Maarten; 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...
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Social mobility: is there an advantage in being English in Scotland?
van Ham, Maarten; Findlay, Allan; Manley, David; … - 2010
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour force experience of English-born residents in Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274181
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Socio-spatial mobility in British society
Clark, William A. V.; van Ham, Maarten; Coulter, Rory - 2011
The research reported in this paper examines the nature and extent of socio-spatial mobility in the United Kingdom. In contrast with previous studies, we do not only investigate who moves out of deprived neighbourhoods, but our models cover the entire spectrum of neighbourhoods and provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278364
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Pre-hire factors and workplace ethnic segregation
Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; … - 2011
In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278482
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Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten; Feijten, Peteke - 2011
Residential mobility decisions are known to be made at the household level. However, most empirical analyses of residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals. If partners in a couple do not share evaluations of...
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