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Residential Mobility in a Constrained Housing Market: Implications for Ethnic Populations in Germany

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  • William A V Clark
  • Anita I Drever

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The rates of residential mobility in Germany are significantly lower than in the United States, and even lower than in some other European countries. The lower mobility rates can be viewed as outcomes of a ‘tight’ housing market. It can be hypothesized that, because ethnic minorities (‘foreigners’ in German terminology) have lower incomes and face discrimination, they are likely to be more constrained than the native-born German population, and so have even lower mobility rates. The authors use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a series of logistic regression models to examine the interaction of nationality and residential mobility. They show that in fact the foreign-born population is slightly more mobile than the native German population, and that the constrained housing market does not appear to affect the foreign-born population differentially. At the same time, the greater mobility of the foreign-born population can be explained by their attempts to overcome higher rates of crowding.

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  • William A V Clark & Anita I Drever, 2000. "Residential Mobility in a Constrained Housing Market: Implications for Ethnic Populations in Germany," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 32(5), pages 833-846, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:32:y:2000:i:5:p:833-846
    DOI: 10.1068/a3222
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    1. Philipp M. Lersch, 2013. "Place Stratification or Spatial Assimilation? Neighbourhood Quality Changes after Residential Mobility for Migrants in Germany," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(5), pages 1011-1029, April.
    2. Anita I. Drever & William A. V. Clark, 2002. "Gaining Access to Housing in Germany: The Foreign-minority Experience," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 39(13), pages 2439-2453, December.
    3. Julie Lacroix & Alain Gagnon & Philippe Wanner, 2020. "Family changes and residential mobility among immigrant and native-born populations: Evidence from Swiss administrative data," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 43(41), pages 1199-1234.
    4. Wadu Mesthrige Jayantha & Lebunu Hewage Udara Willhelm Abeydeera, 2019. "Housing Consumption of the “Soon-to-Retire” in Hong Kong: A Cross-Sectional Regression Analysis," Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research, Asian Online Journal Publishing Group, vol. 6(1), pages 76-84.
    5. Joseph W. Sakshaug & Jonas Beste & Mark Trappmann, 2023. "Effects of mixing modes on nonresponse and measurement error in an economic panel survey," Journal for Labour Market Research, Springer;Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), vol. 57(1), pages 1-16, December.
    6. William A. V. Clark & Anita I. Drever, 2001. "Do Immigrants Improve Their Housing Quality When They Move?: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 70(1), pages 87-94.

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