Migration and Social Mobility: South East England as an Escalator Region

Fielding, Anthony

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“…The gains are likely to be greater if a move is directed to an area with ample educational and labour market opportunities: typically, a country's larger cities (Blau & Duncan, 1967). Within the UK, migration to the South East of England (including London) particularly favours upward social mobility (Fielding, 1992). The Paris region serves a similar function in France (Lelièvre & Bonvalet, 1994).…”

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Migration histories and occupational achievement

Mulder

Ham

2005

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Abstract.We have investigated the impact of men's and women's migration histories on their occupational achievement. Compared with previous work, our operationalization of migration histories is much more detailed: we include not only the distinction between onward and return migration, but also the crucial aspects of the destination and short-term versus long-term effects of migration. Using retrospective survey data for the Netherlands and a least-squares regression model of socio-economic status, we explain the socio-economic status of men and women in a given year from the migration history up to that year, controlling for other factors known to influence socio-economic status. Support was found for the hypothesis that migration has a positive long-term impact on men's occupational achievement. Only multiple migrations affect women's occupational achievement significantly, in a positive way.

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Migration histories and occupational achievement

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Ham

2005

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“…For example, the literature on escalator regions investigated the effects of living in large metropolitan areas on occupational mobility (see Fielding 1992;Findlay et al 2009;Champion 2004 for examples). Other work has analysed the effect of spatial variations in access to job opportunities on occupational achievement (see van Ham et al 2001 for an example).…”

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Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in ‘Neighbourhood Effects’

Ham

Manley

2014

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The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most studies investigating such effects only identify correlations between individual outcomes and their residential environment and do not take into account that selection into neighbourhoods is a non-random mechanism. This paper investigates occupational mobility between 1991 and 2001 for those who were employed in Scotland in 1991 by using unique longitudinal data from Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS). We add to the existing literature by investigating neighbourhood effects on occupational mobility separately for social renters, private renters and home owners. We find that 'neighbourhood effects' are strongest for home owners, which is an unexpected finding. We argue that the correlation between characteristics of the residential environment and occupational mobility can at least partially be explained by selection effects: homeowners with the least resources, who are least likely to experience upward mobility, are also most likely to sort into the most deprived neighbourhoods. Social housing tenants experience less selective sorting across neighbourhoods as other than market forces are responsible for the neighbourhood sorting mechanism.

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“…A combination of preferences, strong norms to marry within the class, and geographically extensive opportunities to meet partners might lead to greater distances. For the UK, Fielding (1992) found that higher education led to widening horizons of the middle class: these groups tend to find partners in other regions. Perhaps this is also related to the fact that education is a strong proxy for cultural lifestyle (Hendrickx 1998).…”

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Explaining Spatial Homogamy. Compositional, Spatial and Regional Cultural Determinants of Regional Patterns of Spatial Homogamy in the Netherlands

Haandrikman

Wissen

Harmsen

2010

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Spatial homogamy, or sharing a similarity in geographical origin, is an under-researched dimension in homogamy studies. In the Netherlands, people tend to choose spatially homogamous partners. Moreover, there is considerable regional variation in spatial homogamy, even when residential location and population density are controlled for. This study aims to explain the regional variation in spatial homogamy by means of a spatial regression. Three sets of explanations are taken into account: compositional effects, spatial determinants, and regional cultural differences. The data used consists of a unique geo-coded micro dataset on all new cohabiters in the Netherlands in 2004 (N=289,248), combined with other data from varying sources. In the spatial regression, the dependent variable is the standardized distance coefficient, based on the distance between partners before cohabitation, standardised for the average distance to other inhabitants. We find that especially educational, income and cultural differences contribute to the regional variation in spatial homogamy.

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Migration and Social Mobility: South East England as an Escalator Region

Cited by 408 publications

References 4 publications

Migration histories and occupational achievement

Migration histories and occupational achievement

Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in ‘Neighbourhood Effects’

Explaining Spatial Homogamy. Compositional, Spatial and Regional Cultural Determinants of Regional Patterns of Spatial Homogamy in the Netherlands

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