Residential Mobility Behaviour amongst Households within Enugu Metropolis: does a change in household income matter?

In this article we aim to extend the literature on residential decisions and relocation in Chinese cities by explicitly incorporating cohort or generation differences in an event-history analysis of residential mobility in the City of Guangzhou over the period 2000–2012, using data from a survey conducted at the end of 2012. The results reveal not only substantially higher mobility propensities for young adults than middle-aged individuals and senior citizens, but significant differential effects of major determinants such as hukou, educational attainment, membership of the Chinese Communist Party and birth of a child and child rearing, on housing consumption and residential relocation across age cohorts. We argue that such differences in mobility behaviour are attributable, to a significant extent, to the vastly different life experiences of and housing opportunities available to different age cohorts.

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Comparing American State Resident Neuroticism and State Tightness-Looseness as Predictors of Annual State Residential Mobility

Psychological Reports ◽

10.1177/0033294115627525 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 118 (3) ◽

pp. 861-869

Author(s):

Stewart J. H. McCann

Keyword(s):

Multiple Regression ◽

Residential Mobility ◽

Household Income ◽

Urban Population ◽

Home Ownership ◽

White Population ◽

Hierarchical Multiple Regression ◽

American States ◽

State Resident ◽

American State

State resident neuroticism and the Harrington and Gelfand state tightness-looseness dimension were compared as predictors of state levels of residential mobility from 2004 to 2005 in the 50 American states. Hierarchical multiple regression controlled for state SES, white population percent, urban population percent, home ownership percent, and percent of home owners or renters paying 30 percent or more of household income for housing. Not moving was associated with higher neuroticism but not with tightness-looseness. Same-county moving, different-county moving, and within-state moving was associated with lower neuroticism but tightness-looseness was unrelated to any of these three criteria. However, lower tightness was associated with different-state moving and higher tightness was associated with greater tendency to move within a state rather than to a different state. Neuroticism showed no relation to the ratio of different-state to same-state moving. Results suggest distance moved may determine when neuroticism or tightness-looseness is a residential mobility predictor.

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The Impact of Macro-scale Determinants on Individual Residential Mobility Behaviour

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - Advances in Social Simulation 2015 ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-47253-9_17 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 201-206

Author(s):

Andreas Koch

Keyword(s):

Residential Mobility ◽

Macro Scale ◽

Mobility Behaviour ◽

The Impact

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DETERMINANT FACTORS OF NEIGHBOURHOOD QUALITY INFLUENCING RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY BEHAVIOUR IN PENANG ISLAND

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pm.v19i19.1058 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

Author(s):

Hamizah Abdul Fattah ◽

Nurwati Badarulzaman ◽

Kausar Ali

Keyword(s):

Residential Mobility ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Neighbourhood Environment ◽

Determinant Factors ◽

Logistic Regression Method ◽

Intention To Move ◽

Mobility Behaviour ◽

Quality Dimensions ◽

Decision To Stay ◽

Internal And External Factors

Residential mobility behaviour is about people’s choices and preferences whether to remain at the present house and neighbourhood, or to move out. Moving to another house or neighbourhood entails a deliberate decision that require various considerations by the residents involved especially in dealing with housing adjustments, life neccesities and financial matters. Residents’ perceptions of their housing and neighbourhood can be indicative of their intention to stay in or move out. The act of moving is often asssociated with lower levels of satisfactions with residents’ current housing and neighbourhood environment, thus activating selfpreference and residential mobility. This study aims to identify the determinant factors of neighbourhood quality that influence residential mobility behaviour in neighbourhoods in Penang Island. The nine attributes of neighbourhood quality dimensions included in this study are dwelling features, dwelling utility, neighbourhood facilities, greenery, accessibility, public transportation, environment, economic livelihood, and neighbourhood interaction and attachments. A total of 717 heads of households residing in Penang Island were involved in the questionnaire survey. Using logistic regression method, the study findings reveal that four factors of dwelling features, facilities, neighbourhood environment, and neighbourhood interaction and attachments are significant in influencing residents’ intention to move. Moreover, both internal and external factors of housing and the neighbourhood can influence the residents’ decision to stay in or to move out, thus implying important policy measures for local housing.

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Barcelona’s got talent: migration, residential change and socioeconomic polarisation

Perspectives Demogràfiques ◽

10.46710/ced.pd.eng.3 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Antonio López-Gay

Keyword(s):

Residential Mobility ◽

Household Income ◽

City Council ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

Social Segregation ◽

Key Factor ◽

Place Of Origin ◽

First Time ◽

The City ◽

Residential Change

The Barcelona City Council has, for the first time, provided to researchers the educational level of the population among the results of its register for migration and residential mobility. With these data, in addition to the well-known structure by age, sex and place of origin of migrants, it is now possible to know the educational profile of people arriving in the city and those moving within it. This is a key factor for understanding the processes of polarisation and social segregation in the city of Barcelona and its neighbourhoods. The data show that Barcelona has power, considerable power of attraction for a highly-qualified youthful population, but little power when it comes to distributing this population homogeneously among its neighbourhoods. The central part of the city is more attractive for the well-qualified population which is arriving, while hardly any of the less-educated population is moving into these neighbourhoods. Moreover, the internal residential mobility of the Barcelona inhabitants tends to perpetuate pre-existing socioeconomic differences in the city. The neighbourhoods of higher household income retain and attract more educated people, while lower-income areas retain and attract less-educated people with fewer chances of moving up the housing ladder. The combination of these dynamics is, then, contributing towards the process of socioeconomic polarisation in the city of Barcelona

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Immigrants’ spatial integration dynamics in Tel-Aviv: An analysis of residential mobility and sorting

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020936139 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 004209802093613

Author(s):

Tal Modai-Snir ◽

Pnina O. Plaut

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Residential Mobility ◽

Former Soviet Union ◽

Joint Effect ◽

Spatial Integration ◽

Mobility Patterns ◽

Data Set ◽

Tel Aviv ◽

Residential Sorting ◽

Mobility Behaviour

Residential mobility patterns of immigrant and majority groups are key in understanding immigrants’ spatial integration. This article explores the spatial integration dynamics of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Tel-Aviv, Israel, as reflected in changing residential mobility behaviour. Unlike previous research, the article investigates the simultaneous effect of the relocations of both immigrants and majority members, with treatment of ethnic and socioeconomic dimensions of residential sorting considered simultaneously. Using a unique data set that spans the period 1997–2008, the analysis reveals a dynamic interplay of both groups’ mobility patterns. Their joint effect decreased residential sorting across both neighbourhood dimensions over time. Despite the decreasing magnitude, residential sorting processes remained active by the end of the research period, delaying the spatial integration of immigrants.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD QUALITY ASSESSMENT: A VIEW OF TENURE OWNERSHIP AND MOBILITY DECISIONS IN PENANG, MALAYSIA

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pm.v18i11.712 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

Author(s):

Hamizah Abdul Fattah ◽

Nurwati Badarulzaman ◽

Kausar Ali

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Residential Mobility ◽

Family Life ◽

Questionnaire Survey ◽

Family Life Cycle ◽

Mobility Behaviour ◽

Housing Needs

Most people have experienced a crucial moment of decision during their life course, that of whether to stay over or to move out of their house and neighbourhood. Residential mobility refers to mobility thoughts and intentions, as well as the actual moving behaviours among the residents, which are often triggered by feelings of dissatisfactions, state of disequilibrium or mismatch between the present housing needs and consumption, and the desired housing preferences. Residential mobility is postulated to be influenced by many factors, notably family life cycle (infant to elderly phase), tenure ownership (house owner or renter), housing profile (dwelling features) and quality of the neighbourhood. There is limited study on tenure ownership and factors of neighbourhood quality that can affect mobility decision and residential mobility behaviour. Hence, this study examines mobility decisions based on tenure ownership and neighbourhood quality including physical, social and economic attributes among residents of housing schemes in Penang Island, Malaysia. A questionnaire survey of 717 respondents living in low, medium and high cost housing in the study area revealed that dwelling features, neighbourhood facilities, environment, social interaction and attachment are the major considerations and preferences affecting residential mobility behaviours among residents. The study findings provide insights and guidance on planning for better neighbourhoods to satisfy residents’ needs and enhance quality of life.

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