Residential Mobility Differences among Developed Countries

Abstract

"Micro-level theories of why households change residence contrast with macro-level approaches that relate the level of spatial mobility to development. This article compares the rate of residential mobility in 16 [developed] countries or other areas and examines both regional variations within countries and changes in rates of local and nonlocal moving. Hypotheses that explain why countries differ in rates of residential mobility are examined."

Residential and job mobility: Interregional variation and their interplay in US metropolitan areas

“…1 According to the ACS, 15~17% of the population moves every year in the U.S., which is higher than the rates in many other countries (Long, 1991;Strassmann, 1991). (2000), a large portion of the variation may be attributable to differences in demographic make-up among regions.…”

Del sedentarismo a la hipermovilidad. Medida y determinantes de las historias de (in)movilidad residencial en contextos urbanos

“…Hoy en día, y tras una amplia experiencia de investigaciones cada vez más específicas, realizar una compilación de los factores implicados en las decisiones y en las trayectorias de movilidad e inmovilidad residencial y espacial resultaría una ardua tarea. Se han señalado desde factores estructurales, como rasgos culturales o características de los sistemas de vivienda (Long, 1991;Meeus y De Decker, 2015), hasta factores individuales, como las percepciones y las emociones que generan los cambios (Oishi y Talhelm, 2012) o las valoraciones que las personas realizan de su entorno residencial (Thomas et al, 2015). Efectivamente, este bagaje apunta la inmensa complejidad con la que nos encontramos a la hora de entender los comportamientos residenciales.…”

International Comparisons of Population Mobility in Russia

“…In Germany, the rate was 13.6 and in the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, and Hungary, it varied from 4 to 8, and in Poland, Greece, Slovakia, and Spain, the rates were even lower. In one of the early works comparing mobility, Long gives data for 1981 for the number of people changing usual residence annually for fourteen developed countries for ranging 6.1 percent in Ireland to 17.5 percent in the United States and 18.0 percent in Canada [34].…”