Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Poblacio´n Activa) from 1999 through 2007, we explore the role of employment opportunities in explaining the growing immigrant flows of recent years. Subsequently, we investigate whether immigrant inflows have helped reduce regional...

Die Wohnsitzauflage soll die nachhaltige Integration anerkannter Flüchtlinge fördern. Aus ökonomischer Sicht scheint sie hierfür jedoch wenig geeignet. Frühere Erfahrungen zeigen, dass eine Festschreibung des Wohnortes die Wahrscheinlichkeit, eine Arbeitsstelle zu finden, reduziert. Der so...

Die Studie untersucht aktuelle Wohnortpräferenzen in der deutschen Bevölkerung und wie diese durch die Corona-Pandemie beeinflusst werden. Eine Umfrage unter 18 000 Menschen in urbanen, suburbanen und ruralen Gebieten zeigt, dass knapp 13% der Befragten aus den deutschen Großstädten plant,...

Couples' residential decisions are based on a large variety of factors including housing preferences, family and other social ties, socialisation and residential biography (e.g. earlier experience in the life course) and environmental factors (e.g. housing market, labour market). This study...

In the context of inequalities inherent in regimes of mobility and the rapid transformation of Lisbon by increased tourism and transnational mobility, this paper seeks to foreground under-the-radar narratives of young working-aged middle-class migrants on their socio-spatial positioning in the...

This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...