This is the online first version published on 2022-02-28. Read the most recent version. Leaving, Staying in and Returning to the Hometown Couple's residential location choices at the time of family formation Authors Janna Albrecht ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Research Group Mobilities and Space https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5566-2210 Joachim Scheiner TU Dortmund University, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Department of Transport Planning https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6157-437X DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.132 Keywords: residential choice, residential biography, intergenerational family ties, return migration, family formation Abstract Couples' residential decisions are based on a large variety of factors including housing preferences, family and other social ties, socialisation and residential biography (e.g. earlier experience in the life course) and environmental factors (e.g. housing market, labour market). This study examines, firstly, to what extent people stay in, return to or leave their hometown (referred to as ‘migration type’). We refer to the hometown as the place where most of childhood and adolescence is spent. Secondly, we study which conditions shape a person’s migration type. We mainly focus on variables capturing elements of the residential biography and both partners’ family ties and family socialisation. We focus on the residential choices made at the time of family formation, i.e. when the first child is born. We employ multinomial regression modelling and cross-tabulations, based on two generations in a sample of families who mostly live in the wider Ruhr area, born around 1931 (parents) and 1957 (adult children). We find that migration type is significantly affected by a combination of both partners' place of origin, both partners' parents' places of residence, the number of previous moves, level of education and hometown population size. We conclude that complex patterns of experience made over the life course, socialisation and gendered patterns are at work. These mechanisms should be kept in mind when policymakers develop strategies to attract (return) migrants. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF HTML XML Published 2022-02-28 Versions 2022-08-31 (2) 2022-02-28 (1) Issue Vol. 80 No. 4 (2022) Section Research Article License Copyright (c) 2022 Janna Albrecht, Joachim Scheiner This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.Albrecht J, Scheiner J. Leaving, Staying in and Returning to the Hometown: Couple’s residential location choices at the time of family formation. RuR [Internet]. 2022 Feb. 28 [cited 2024 Apr. 20];80(4). Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/132 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Funding data Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant numbers SCHE 1692/1-1/2;HO 3262/5-1/2
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