factors influencing the spatial mobility decisions of households, but little is known about how these factors influenced … mobility during the recent economic crisis. This paper uses rich individual level microdata from the last two Spanish censuses … mobility. Our finding suggest that the role, influence and interconnection of unemployment and homeownership in mobility …

data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … process. Since geographic mobility can importantly compensate for regional shocks and it is considered as one of the ways to …

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of … birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young …, lower average wages, and fewer possibilities for geographic mobility all contribute to these welfare losses. Paying …