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Linking Migration and Mobility: Individual and Contextual Effects in Housing Markets in the UK

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  • William Clark
  • Youqin Huang

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Clark W. A. V. and Huang Y. (2004) Linking migration and mobility: individual and contextual effects in housing markets in the UK, Regional Studies38, 617-628. Most migration work continues to separate long- and short-distance moves and their outcomes, but clearly, they are part of a complex process of relocation across different scales. While we know that long-distance moves are largely driven by labour market differences and moves at the local scale are the way in which households translate those long-distance moves into residential satisfaction in local housing markets, we know very little about the link between the two processes and their likelihoods. Some studies have suggested that long-distance moves are followed by local adjustment moves at an early point after the relocation. This paper evaluates those empirical findings in the context of the British housing market. It takes up a number of previously unexamined issues related to these linkages and to the timing of the links between the two moves. We show that the classic notion of a long-distance move followed by a short-distance adjustment move is far from the common experience. Additionally, we show that adjustment is only one of many outcomes of long- and short-distance relocations. Overall, repeat movers seem to account for much of the movement after long- and short-distance moves. Also clear is the finding that migration and mobility are absolutely embedded in the complex of life-course decisions. Clark W. A. V. et Huang Y. (2004) Relier la migration a la mobilite: des effets individuels et contextuels sur les marches immobiliers en Grande-Bretagne, Regional Studies38, 617-628. La plupart des etudes au sujet de la migration persistent a separer non seulement les deplacements a courte et a longue distance, mais aussi leurs resultats. Toujours est-il qu'ils constituent une partie integrante d'un processus complexe de demenagement a plusieurs niveaux. Alors que l'on sait que les deplacements a longue distance s'expliquent dans une large mesure par des differences sur le marche du travail et que les deplacements sur le plan local representent la maniere dont les menages traduisent ces deplacements a longue distance en satisfaction residentielle sur les marches immobiliers locaux, on ne sait pas grande chose quant au lien entre les deux processus et leur probabilite. Certaines etudes ont laisse supposer que des deplacements a longue distance sont suivis des deplacements d'adaptation sur le plan local peu apres un demenagement. Cet article cherche a evaluer ces preuves empiriques dans le cadre du marche immobilier en Grande-Bretagne. Cet article cherche aussi a reprendre quelques questions qui n'ont pas ete examinees jusqu'ici et qui se rapportent a ces liens et au temps ecoule entre les deux deplacements. On demontre que l'idee recue d'un deplacement a longue distance suivi d'un deplacement d'adaptation a courte distance est loin d'etre la norme. En plus, on laisse voir que la notion d'adaptation ne constitue qu'un des nombreux resultats d'un demenagement a longue et a courte distance. Toutes choses egales par ailleurs, il semble que ceux qui se deplacent a maintes reprises expliquent beaucoup des deplacements qui ont lieu suite aux deplacements a longue et a courte distance. Il est evident aussi que la migration et la mobilite sont ancrees dans l'ensemble des decisions prises au cours du cycle de vie. Clark W. A. V. und Huang Y. (2004) Verknupfung von Wanderung und Mobilitat: vereinzelter und im Zusammenhang zu verstehender Auswirkungen auf dem britischen Wohnungsmarkt, Regional Studies38, 617-628. Die meisten Arbeiten uber Wanderung unterscheiden zwischen Fern-und Nahumzugen und ihren jeweiligen Ergebnissen, doch sind sie offensichtlich Bestandteil eines komplexeren Vorgangs des Standortwechsels verschiedener Grossenordnungen. Obwohl man weiss, dass Umzuge uber grosse Enfernungen hinweg meistenteils von Unterschieden im Arbeitsmarkt bestimmt werden, und Umzuge innerhalb eines Ortes auf dem ortlichen Wohnungsmarkt als Ausdruck der ubersetzung der Fernumzuge in Zufriedenheit mit dem Wohnsitz betrachtet werden, wissen wir jedoch nur sehr wenig uber die Verknupfung der beiden Vorgange und ihre Wahrscheinlichkeiten. Manche Untersuchungen legen nahe, dass Fernumzugen bald Anpassungsumzuge am Orte folgen. Der vorliegende Aufsatz wertet diese Befunde im Zusammenhang mit dem britischen Wohnungsmarkt aus. Er greift eine Anzahl zuvor nicht uberprufter Fragen auf, die sich auf diese Verknupfungen und den Zeitpunkt der Verknupfungen zwischen den beiden Umzugen beziehen. Es wird gezeigt, dass die klassiche Ansicht eines Fernumzugs mit anschliessendem Anpassungsumzug in der Nahe bei weitem nicht das Normalmuster darstellt. Daruberhinaus wird gezeigt, dass Anpassung nur eines von vielen Ergebnissen einer Ortsveranderung ist. Im allgemeinen scheinen wiederholt Umziehende einen Grossteil der Fern-und Nahumzuge auszumachen. Klar ist auch der Befund, dass Wanderung und Mobilitat absolut einen Bestandteil des Entscheidungskomplexes im Laufe eines Lebens darstellen. Clark W. A. V. y Huang Y. (2004) Vinculando migracion y movilidad: efectos individuales y contextuales en los mercados de vivienda britanicos, Regional Studies38, 617-628. La mayoria de los estudios sobre migracion continuan separando los desplazamientos de distancias largas y cortas y sus resultados, pero claramente estos son parte de un complejo proceso de reubicacion a traves de diferentes escalas. Mientras que sabemos que los desplazamientos de distancias largas son motivados en gran medida por diferencias en el mercado laboral y que los desplazamientos a escala local son la forma mediante la cual los hogares traducen aquellos desplazamientos de distancias largas en satisfaccion residencial en los mercados de vivienda locales, sabemos muy poco sobre el vinculo que existe entre los dos procesos y sus probabilidades. Algunos estudios han sugerido que los desplazamientos de distancias largas se ven seguidos de desplazamientos de ajuste local poco despues de la reubicacion. Este articulo evalua esos resultados empiricos en el contexto del mercado de vivienda britanico. El articulo retoma un numero de cuestiones previamente no examinadas relacionadas con estos vinculos y con el momento en que estos vinculos se producen entre los dos desplazamientos. Mostramos que la nocion clasica de un desplazamiento de larga distancia seguido de un desplazamiento de ajuste de corta distancia esta lejos de la experiencia comun. Ademas, mostramos que el ajuste es solo uno de los muchos resultados derivados de los desplazamientos de distancias largas y cortas. En su conjunto, aquellos que se desplazan repetidamente parecen explicar la mayor parte de los desplazamientos despues de desplazamientos de distancias cortas y largas. Tambien esta clara la conclusion de que la migracion y la movilidad estan absolutamente incrustados en las complejas decisiones que se toman a lo largo del curso de la vida.

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  • William Clark & Youqin Huang, 2004. "Linking Migration and Mobility: Individual and Contextual Effects in Housing Markets in the UK," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(6), pages 617-628.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:38:y:2004:i:6:p:617-628
    DOI: 10.1080/003434042000240932
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