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Elizabeth Fussell - Work, family, housing, and displacement: Migrants' reasons for moving, socio-demographic selection, and residential outcomes

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Thursday, March 10, 2016
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Elizabeth Fussell - Brown University
DuPRI Seminar Series

Abstract: Migration theories posit that processes selecting people into voluntary and involuntary migration differ, but without data sets that include measures of the causes of mobility, there is little evidence demonstrating these selection effects. The American Housing Survey, 1997-2013, provides a unique opportunity to examine selection effects associated with a variety of reported reasons for changing residences, and in doing so, to unify disparate fields of migration research. This research examines selection into five mover types (employment related, housing-related, family-related, disaster-related, and other forced moves) and residential outcomes for each of these mover types. Findings show that mover types have different socio-demographic profiles, and that voluntary movers - particularly housing-or family-related movers- gain more than those who move for involuntary reasons.