Residential mobility and social capital

Local social capital and geographical mobility

“…Home ownership is instead positively correlated with social capital. Other papers follow a similar framework, such as Belot and Ermisch (2006), Bräuninger (2002), Kan (2007) and Spilimbergo and Ubeda (2004a,b). 11 Our two concepts of social capital are linked with weak and strong ties sometimes mentioned in the literature on labor markets and social networks.…”

“…In an insightful empirical paper based on PSID data in the US, Kan (2007) uses the concept of local capital and applies some of the same intuition we formalize in our model. Our paper is more devoted to labor markets and unemployment than Kan's paper, and our paper is focussed on cross-country differences in social capital while they focus on the US.…”

How Do Neighbors Influence Investment in Social Capital? Homeownership and Length of Residence

“…Among these, samples are 2349 length of residence, individual long resident dummies such as LIVE20 and LIVE 10 are used. According to Kan (2007), length of residence can be considered as the degree of integration into the neighborhood. People integrated into the neighborhood are thought to be inclined to invest in social capital since the return from the investment is expected to be large.…”

“…On the other hand, evidence has been presented that household social ties with neighbors, which can be regarded as a kind of social capital, generate benefits for residents 1 . This benefit disappears if a household moves, reinforcing low residential mobility (Kan 2007). This indicates that individual decision making is influenced by the degree of accumulated social capital among neighbors.…”

Comparison of the effects of homeownership by individuals and their neighbors on social capital formation: Evidence from Japanese General Social Surveys

“…1 Social capital was found to improve health status through non-market personal interaction (Kawachi et al 1997(Kawachi et al , 1999. 2 Because of the disappearance of this benefit when a household moves from the current address where larger social capital is accumulated, the incentive for moving is reduced leading to low residential mobility (Kan 2007).…”