Family Structure, Residential Mobility, and Environmental Inequality

Regina M. Bures Family, Employment Status and Residential Mobility in the Health and Retirement Survey Family, Employment Status and Residential Mobility in the Health and Retirement Survey

Understanding the relationship between mobility and the family and work transitions experienced by individuals approaching retirement is an important research topic. Both family transitions, such as divorce, widowhood or children leaving home, and work transitions, particularly retirement, influence where individuals will reside and, as they age, how much assistance they may need. This paper us...

Inequality and mobility

Acknowledging that wage inequality and intergenerational mobility are strongly interrelated, this paper presents a model in which both are jointly determined. The model enables us to study how inequality and mobility are affected by exogenous changes and what determines their correlation. A main implication of the model is that differences in the amount of public subsidies to education and educ...

Re-thinking residential mobility

While researchers are increasingly re-conceptualizing international migration, far less attention has been devoted to re-thinking short-distance residential mobility and immobility. In this paper we harness the life course approach to propose a new conceptual framework for residential mobility research. We contend that residential mobility and immobility should be re-conceptualized as relationa...

Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure

Aspirations, Inequality, Investment and Mobility

What individuals want for themselves, or what parents want for their children, is conditioned by society in fundamental ways. One such pathway is via the creation of individual aspirations (for their own future, or for their children’s future). To some extent, such aspirations are drawn from past individual experience (as in the literature on habit formation or reference points), but at the sam...