Internal Migration, Living Close to Family, and Individual Labour Market Outcomes in Spain

Mulder, Clara H.; Palomares‐Linares, Isabel; Vidal, Sergi

doi:10.12765/cpos-2022-01

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“…We see no reason to think that these individuals attached less importance to family and friends than professionals. Instead, we speculate that there may have been more respondents among the professionals (whose jobs are more likely to require migration; e.g., see Mulder et al, 2022 ) who have experienced living at a distance from their family and friends before. Furthermore, while we had expected to observe that people who had a university degree would be less likely to mention financial limitations than people who did not, we found no evidence for such an association.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…We observed that many of the self-reported constraints to migration involved sources of non-transferable capital (i.e., local ties) that have previously been shown to act as constraints to migration (David et al, 2010 ; Michaelides, 2011 ; Mulder & Malmberg, 2014 ; Palomares-Linares, 2018 ; Thomassen, 2021 ) and financial constraints (Landale & Guest, 1985 ; Sjaastad, 1962 ). Some examples are ‘family care obligations’, ‘a fear of change’, ‘the work location’, or feeling ‘happy here’; obstacles such as age or health; and financial limitations such as ‘income’.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Several efforts were made to obtain a sample representative of the population of Spain, for example through quota sampling. To assess the representativeness, Mulder et al, ( 2022 ) compared the survey’s sample with the sample of the third quarter of 2019 in the Spanish Labour Force Survey. They found no relevant divergences in sample composition with regard to socio-demographic characteristics, level of education, or employment situation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…People’s occupations may also be associated with developing more or fewer ties to work. In the Spanish labour market, professionals are more likely than workers in other occupations to have a history of migration (Mulder et al, 2022 ). Conversely, managers and directors may feel more attached to their job or loyal to their place of work because they supervise teams and employees who depend on them.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Local Ties as Self-Reported Constraints to Internal Migration in Spain

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The internal migration literature has identified various factors that deter migration and encourage staying, but has been less concerned with people’s own reports about what makes it difficult for them to migrate or makes them want to stay. We explore factors that make it difficult to change the place of residence—from here on denoted as constraints—reported in the Spanish survey on Attitudes and Expectations of Spatial Mobility in the Labour Force (N = 3892). These constraints were uniquely asked from all respondents through an open-ended question, regardless of their migration intentions. We find that many self-reported constraints correspond to factors that have previously been associated with decreased migration propensities. In order of frequency, respondents reported ties to family and friends, ties to their residential environment, financial limitations, and ties to work as constraints to migration. Our results further show that the likelihood of mentioning ties to family and friends as constraints decreased with age, was higher for women than for men and for people who lived close to most of their social network than for those who did not. Mentioning ties to the residential environment as constraints was positively associated with being partnered, and also with living in one’s birthplace. People who were unemployed were less likely to mention ties to work and were more likely to report financial limitations as constraints than people who had a permanent contract—whereas being self-employed was positively associated with mentioning ties to the residential environment.

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“…Among couples near retirement, consumer amenities become more important (Chen/Rosenthal 2008). Migrating towards family can also be benefi cial from an economic perspective as proximity to family members may protect people -women in particular -from precarious labour market positions (Mulder et al 2022) and increase their labour force attachment (Compton/Pollak 2014).…”

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Understanding Couple Migration towards Core and Peripheral Regions: The Role of Men’s and Women’s Education

Kooiman

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2022

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Numerous studies have demonstrated that men’s educational profiles dominate couple migration decisions. However, most of these investigated the US context or were conducted in the previous century. This study examines the role of both partners’ educational attainments in couple migration in recent years in a new context: the Netherlands. The Netherlands is one of the countries in which women surpass men in educational attainment. We take a geographical perspective and test Costa and Kahn’s (2000) hypothesis that power couples – two partners with university degrees – are more likely than other couples to migrate to metropolitan areas with dense labour markets in order to solve their “colocation problem.” Data are derived from the Dutch Labour Force Survey between 2006 and 2015. The research population consists of all opposite-sex married and unmarried couples aged 18-45 (N = 90,314 couples). By linking the respondents to integral register data, we tracked all couples until three years after the interview date. The results show that both men’s and women’s human capital increases migration propensities, although effect sizes are relatively small. Social factors such as the geographical distance to birthplace and parents appear to play a significant role in couple migration. We found only partial support for Costa and Kahn’s (2000) colocation hypothesis. Power couples who live in the core region are less likely than other couples to migrate to more peripherally located regions. However, periphery-to-core migration is only affected by the male partner’s human capital, not by hers. Hence, the concentration of power couples in Dutch metropolitan areas probably stems from highly educated, single, young, urban adults who migrated there individually and who tend to stay there after union formation.

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