Showing papers on "Mobility model published in 1983"

Determinants of Residential Mobility Decisions The Role of Government Services in Relation to Other Factors

Abstract: This article is one of the first to test for the relative importance of concerns about public services in affecting residential mobility decisions over and beyond normal mobility factors. A secondary aim is to test for the validity of a residential mobility model formulated by Speare and associates. Multiple regression analysis was employed using 1974 to 1977 data from the longitudinal version of the Annual Housing Survey. Concerns about public services did not play a meaningful role in the analysis. This implies that efforts to hold middle income residents in declining neighborhoods, through improved services, will not succeed. The results supported the Speare mobility model; housing satisfaction acted as an intermediary variable between background characteristics and mobility behavior.

A Multivariate Model for Mobility Tables

Abstract: A general "logistic-multiplicative" model is developed which incorporates variables besides origin category to predict destination category in occupational mobility tables. The additional variables can be continuous or categorical. The (partial) bivariate relationship between origin and destination can be modeled with any of the existing multiplicative mobility models. In an empirical example, two main results emerge: interactions off the main diagonal become insignificant with the introduction of education and race variables; main diagonal effects for one origin category become insignificant while those for other categories do not, suggesting that different mechanisms of status transmission are at work in different strata.