Spatial and social mobility
- This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area that is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that relative regional social mobility is negatively correlated with segregation and inequality. In the model, segregation, income inequality, and social mobility are driven by differences between urban and residential areas in commuting cost differences between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and also by the magnitude of taste heterogeneity.
| Author details: | Rainald BorckORCiDGND, Matthias WredeORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12382 |
| ISSN: | 0022-4146 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9787 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Journal of Regional Science |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Place of publishing: | Hoboken |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/03/09 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2021/10/08 |
| Tag: | inequality; segregation; social mobility; spatial mobility |
| Volume: | 58 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 17 |
| First page: | 688 |
| Last Page: | 704 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 301 Soziologie, Anthropologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
