Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34152 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2209
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A common finding in analyses of geographic mobility is a strong association between past movement and current mobility, a phenomenon that has given rise to the so called 'mover-stayer model'. We argue in this paper that one of the driving forces behind this heterogeneity is the strength of local social ties. We use data from the BHPS on the location of the three closest friends and the frequency of contacts. We estimate the processes of friendship formation and residential mobility jointly, allowing for correlation between the two processes. Our results show that the location of the closest friends matters substantially in the mobility decision, and matters more than the frequency of contacts.
Subjects: 
geographical mobility
social ties
friendship formation
JEL: 
J61
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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