Home ownership, life cycle stage, and residential mobility
TL;DR: When mobility rates were examined by home ownership, age-marital status, and duration of previous residence, it was observed that there was little variation in mobility rates by duration for home owners while the mobility rates for renters declined with duration.
Abstract: Previous research has shown that mobility rates decline with increasing age and duration of residence These relationships are investigated further for the case of residential mobility using residence histories obtained in interviews with 2264 Rhode Island residents Three methods of classifying segments of a person’s life into life cycle stages are compared: age, life cycle stages based on marital status and child-rearing periods, and a combined age-marital status classification These classifications were not found to be equivalent in that there was considerable variation in mobility rates by life cycle stage within age categories and by age within life cycle categories The age-marital status classification was selected for use in the remainder of the analysis because it had the least variation in mobility rates within categories and required far less data for computation than the life cycle stages When mobility rates were examined by home ownership, age-marital status, and duration of previous residence, it was observed that there was little variation in mobility rates by duration for home owners while the mobility rates for renters declined with duration
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TL;DR: A model of residential mobility in which residential satisfaction acts as an intervening variable between individual and residence variables and mobility is developed, showing that residential satisfaction at the first interview is related to the wish to move and to mobility in the year following the interview.
Abstract: The stress-threshold model (Wolpert, 1965; Brown and Moore, 1970) assumes that people do not consider moving unless they experience residential stress. This paper develops a similar model of residential mobility in which residential satisfaction acts as an intervening variable between individual and residence variables and mobility. The model is tested with data from a panel study of Rhode Island residents. The results indicate that residential satisfaction at the first interview is related to the wish to move and to mobility in the year following the interview. Individual and residence characteristics such as age of head duration of residence, home ownership, and room crowding are shown to affect mobility through their effect on residential satisfaction.
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TL;DR: This article found that the stable forms of attachment which are so highly adaptive to the first or second generation ethnic community inhibit progression to new urban environments and to new conditions of social life when these become desirable or necessary.
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TL;DR: The authors assesses a number of previously suggested factors related to race central city decline and demographic structure as determinants of the white city-to-suburb movement streams in 39 large SMSAs and show that most factors both racial and non-racial affect central city flight less through the decision to move than through the choice of destination.
Abstract: Although residential "while flight" from large central cities is hardly a new phenomenon its cumulative adverse impact on the residual population has led policy makers to be wary of instituting programs which will further exacerbate the process. Recent policy debates have evolved over the question of whether white city-to-suburb movement is affected more significantly by racially-motivated causes or by conditions associated with the general economic and ecological conditions in the city. The present study assesses a number of previously suggested factors related to race central city decline and demographic structure as determinants of the white city-to-suburb movement streams in 39 large SMSAs. Treating this stream as a product of two separate mobility stages this analysis suggests that most factors both racial and nonracial affect central city flight less through the decision to move than through the choice of destination. Fiscal and ecological features of the metropolitan area are demonstrated to be important in the explanation. However racial effects cannot be dismissed. (authors)
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical review and survey of the available evidence on the feasibility of local house-hold mobility, and present some implications for EMPIRICAL RESEARCH.
Abstract: THIS PAPER PROVIDES A CRITICAL REVIEW AND SURVEY OF THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE ON INTRA-URBAN HOUSEHOLD MOBILITY AND A SYNTHESIS OF THE THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS TO UNDERSTANDING THE DETERMINANTS OF LOCAL MOBILITY. THE ANALYSIS ATTEMPTS TO RECONCILE THESE PERSPECTIVES AND THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE INTO A UNIFIED THEORY OF THE MOBILITY DECISION BASED ON MEASURABLE CONCEPTS, AND IT PRESENTS SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR EMPIRICAL RESEARCH.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the effects of neighborhood racial conditions and metropolitan-level structural factors on the residential mobility of individual White householders and found that the annual likelihood of leaving the neighborhood increases significantly with the size of the minority population in the neighborhood, and Whites are especially likely to leave neighborhoods containing combinations of multiple minority groups.
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TL;DR: This book reaffirms the basic validity of the original study and new scholars will welcome the opportunity to become acquainted with this classic study.
Abstract: When Why Families Move first appeared in 1956, it represented one of the first major attempts to examine residential mobility and its implications for social policy. In presenting the second edition, Rossi provides analysis of the data and findings of the intervening 23 years, as well as an extensive bibliographic update. This book reaffirms the basic validity of the original study and new scholars will welcome the opportunity to become acquainted with this classic study.
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TL;DR: In this article, the congruence of political, social, and economic aspects of development has been discussed, and a re-test of Lipset's hypotheses is presented.
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TL;DR: The findings of this paper underscore the fundamental limitation of stationary probability models in portraying migration and suggest that the non-stationary alternative is a more accurate formulation.
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to evaluate the empirical accuracy of the Cornell mobility model. Migration is formulated as a stochastic process governed by non-stationary probabilities: during a given interval of time, an individual is presumed to undergo a risk of migrating that decreases as he continues to reside in the same community. The major hypothesis, then, is that a person’s propensity to move declines as his duration of residence increases.
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TL;DR: In this article, a study of the ciclo de vida de the families of the United States found that the edad tipica of the fem femenines of a femenine femenino femenin correlated with her periodo de reproduccion.
Abstract: Metodos revisados y nuevas fuenies de datos para estudiar el ciclo de vida de la familia permiten medir con mayor exactitud la edad tipica en que ocurren los hechos en dicho ciclo y describir las formas tipicas de cambio en la composicion y en las caracteristicas economicas de la familia desde el principio hasta el termino de el. Se encuentra que los cambios ocurridos durante el siglo veinte en la edad al casarse, en el tamaiio de la familia completa, en el espaciamiento de los hijos y en la esperanza de vida, han influido sustanc almente en el ciclo de vida de la familia media de los Estados Unidos. He aqui una comparacion de las mujeres mas jovenes y para las cuales existen datos, con las mujeres de 40 a 60 anos de edad: Las mujeres mas jovenes se casan uno ados anos antes y terminan su periodo de reproduccion dos a tres anos mas jovenes; su edad al casarse su hijo menor es de 4 a 5 anos menor y la duracion de su vida de casada es cerca de nueve anos mayor. Los datos del Censo de 1960 muestran que de ocho parejas que se encuentran en su primer an de casados, siete constituyen un hogar independiente de sus parientes; al cabo de diez anos de casados el 99 por ciento tiene hogares separados. El limite del periodo de reproduccion situiee entre los 5 y los 20 anos de casados, cuando cerca del 85 por ciento de las parejas conservan a algunos de sus hijos en casa. El ingreso maximo de la familia se registra entre las familias cuyo jefe (marido) tiene de 45 a 54 anos de edad. Sin embargo, el ingreso maximo por miembro de la familia se alcanza cerca de diez anos despues, cuando la mayoria de los hijos han abandonado el hogar.
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TL;DR: The data presented indicate a definite trend that tends to support the axiom of cumulative inertia, which means that the probabilities of movement decline by increasing duration of residence for each year.
Abstract: The data presented indicate a definite trend that tends to support the axiom of cumulative inertia. The probabilities of movement decline by increasing duration of residence for each year. Not only is information on duration of residence an important element in any study of migration, but it also provides a necessary modification for the Markov chain approach to migration probabilities. Future studies of the mathematical model will require data that will satisfy the criteria stipulated in this paper and will be of sufficient quantity to assure reliable within‐cell probabilities of movement.
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