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Geographical Mobility
About: Geographical Mobility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 372 publications have been published within this topic receiving 7242 citations.
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TL;DR: Residential mobility is a powerful, parsimonious explanatory construct in the self, social relationships, and subjective well-being and may be a key to understanding the future of mind and behavior in the increasingly mobile world.
Abstract: Residential mobility is an increasingly important personal and societal issue in both the United States and the world in general. However, it has received relatively limited attention in psychological theorizing and research. This article demonstrates the importance of residential mobility in understanding the self, social relationships, and well-being. Recent research has shown that residential mobility (number of moves for an individual or percentage having moved recently for a neighborhood) is associated with the primacy of the personal over the collective self. It is also associated with "duty-free" friendships and group memberships rather than obligatory friendships and group memberships. Overall, residential mobility is associated with lower levels of well-being at the individual level of analysis. Finally, residential mobility is associated with personal forms of subjective well-being (based on self-esteem, the verification of the personal self) as opposed to interpersonal forms of subjective well-being (based on social support, the verification of the collective selves). In short, residential mobility is a powerful, parsimonious explanatory construct in the self, social relationships, and subjective well-being and may be a key to understanding the future of mind and behavior in the increasingly mobile world.
457 citations
TL;DR: The hypothesis that extended family relations can be maintained in an industrial, bureaucratized society despite differential rates of geographical mobility is presented in this article. But the authors do not consider the effect of geographical distance on families.
Abstract: The hypothesis is advanced that extended family relations can be maintained in an industrial, bureaucratized society despite differential rates of geographical mobility. This is so because institutional pressures force the extended family to legitimize geographical mobility, because technological improvements in communication systems have minimized the socially disruptive forces of geographical distance, and because an extended family can provide important aid to nuclear families without interfering with the occupational system. In support of these views, data are presented from a survey of 920 wives in the Buffalo urban area.
364 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania using longitudinal data on individuals, and estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between 1991 and 2004.
Abstract: This study explores the extent to which migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between 1991 and 2004. The analysis addresses concerns about heterogeneity and unobservable factors correlated with both income changes and the decision to migrate. The findings show that migration adds 36 percentage points to consumption growth, during a period of considerable growth in consumption. These results are robust to numerous tests and alternative specifications. Unpacking the findings, the analysis finds that moving out of agriculture is correlated with much higher growth than staying in agriculture, although growth is always higher in any sector if one physically moves. Economic mobility is strongly linked to geographic mobility. The puzzle is why more people do not move if returns to geographic mobility are high. The evidence is consistent with models in which exit barriers are set by home communities (through social and family norms) that prevent migration of certain categories of people.
322 citations
TL;DR: The authors explored the patterns of occupational and geographical mobility of migrant hospitality workers, drawing on participatory research in London, focusing on the ways in which migrants strolled through the UK and Ireland.
Abstract: This article explores the patterns of occupational and geographical mobility of migrant hospitality workers, drawing on participatory research in London. It focuses on the ways in which migrants st...
236 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors build a model of local social capital and mobility and find that observationally close individuals may take different paths characterized by high social capital, low mobility and high unemployment.
182 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2021 | 15 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2016 | 14 |