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Chulhee Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880
The journal of economic history, 2008Co-Authors: Chulhee LeeAbstract:This paper explores how injuries, sickness, and Geographical Mobility of Union Army veterans while in service affected their post-service migrations. Wartime wounds and illnesses significantly diminished the Geographical Mobility of veterans after the war. Geographic moves while carrying out military missions had strong positive effects on their post-service geographic Mobility. Geographic moves while in service also influenced the choice of destination among the migrants. The farther into the South a veteran had traveled while in service, the higher the probability that he would migrate to the South. Furthermore, these migrants to the South were more likely to settle in a state they had entered while in service. Increased general knowledge about Geographical transfer itself, greater information on distant lands and labor markets, and reduced psychological cost of moving were probably important mechanisms by which prior Mobility affected subsequent migration. I discuss some implications of the results for the elements of self-selection in migration, the roles of different types of information in migration decisions, and the overall impact of the Civil War on geographic Mobility.
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health information and migration geographic Mobility of union army veterans 1860 1880
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005Co-Authors: Chulhee LeeAbstract:This paper explores how injuries, sickness, and Geographical Mobility of Union Army veterans while in service affected their post-service migrations. Wartime wounds and illnesses significantly diminished the Geographical Mobility of veterans after the war. Geographic moves while carrying out military missions had strong positive effects on their post-service geographic Mobility. Geographic moves while in service also influenced the choice of destination among the migrants. The farther into the South a veteran had traveled while in service, the higher the probability that he would migrate to the South. Furthermore, these migrants to the South were more likely to settle in a state they had entered while in service. Increased general knowledge about Geographical transfer itself, greater information on distant lands and labor markets, and reduced psychological cost of moving were probably important mechanisms by which prior Mobility affected subsequent migration. I discuss some implications of the results for the elements of self-selection in migration, the roles of different types of information in migration decisions, and the overall impact of the Civil War on geographic Mobility.
Melanie Arntz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Constrained Geographical Mobility and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes Under Structural Adjustment: Evidence from Egypt
World Development, 2005Co-Authors: Ragui Assaad, Melanie ArntzAbstract:Summary We examine in this paper the evolution of gender gaps in labor market outcomes during structural adjustment and explore the extent to which widening gaps can be attributed to women’s more limited Geographical Mobility. Using comparable household surveys carried out in 1988 and 1998, we show that gender gaps in access to wage and salary employment and in earnings have widened during this period, especially in the nongovernmental sector. We attribute these changes, at least in part, to women’s more limited Geographical Mobility. We show that women’s commuting rates are not only much lower than those of men, but also have remained stagnant in a period where males were having to travel significantly more to obtain jobs outside the government.
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the Geographical Mobility of unemployed workers
2005Co-Authors: Melanie ArntzAbstract:Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such search strategies are affected by the local accommodation of labor market programs. Such programs have been suggested to lead to a regional locking-in effect. Empirical results are obtained from a stratified Cox partial likelihood proportional hazards model that allows for location-specific fixed effects and are compared to estimates from a parametric log-logistic hazard model that takes account of unobserved individual heterogeneity. The findings indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions with unfavorable re-employment opportunities. No locking-in effect from labor market programs is found. The probability of migration is found to increase with search time.
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the Geographical Mobility of unemployed workers evidence from west germany
2005Co-Authors: Melanie ArntzAbstract:Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such search strategies are affected by the local accommodation of labor market programs. Such programs have been suggested to lead to a regional locking-in effect. Empirical results are obtained from a stratified Cox partial likelihood proportional hazards model that allows for location-specific fixed effects and are compared to estimates from a parametric log-logistic hazard model that takes account of unobserved individual heterogeneity. The findings indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions with unfavorable re-employment opportunities. No locking-in effect from labor market programs is found. The probability of migration is found to increase with search time.
Sharon R. Roseman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Putting Mobility theory to work: Conceptualizing employment-related Geographical Mobility
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2016Co-Authors: Tim Cresswell, Sara Dorow, Sharon R. RosemanAbstract:Although the “Mobility turn†has captured the critical imaginations of researchers studying an array of topics, its possible contributions to analyses of the spectrum of employment-related Geographical Mobility have only begun to be defined. Studies of work have engaged with the growing body of Mobility theory in limited ways; by the same token, mobilities studies have taken a somewhat narrow and sometimes uncritical view of work, labor, and employment. This article draws on a major interdisciplinary research project into the socio-historical patterns, contexts, and impacts of employment-related Geographical Mobility in Canada to build a conceptual bridge between these two literatures. We re-visit established bodies of work on migration, work, and political economy and look at new avenues for conceptualizing employment-related Geographical Mobility. We then examine a case study from the Alberta Oil Sands and suggest an agenda for future research on Mobility and work.
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putting Mobility theory to work conceptualizing employment related Geographical Mobility
Environment and Planning A, 2016Co-Authors: Tim Cresswell, Sara Dorow, Sharon R. RosemanAbstract:Although the “Mobility turn” has captured the critical imaginations of researchers studying an array of topics, its possible contributions to analyses of the spectrum of employment-related geograph...
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towards a feminist political economy framework for analyzing employment related Geographical Mobility
Studies in Political Economy, 2015Co-Authors: Sharon R. Roseman, Pauline Gardiner Barber, Barbara NeisAbstract:This article develops a feminist political economy framework for analyzing employment-related Geographical Mobility. We emphasize the relevance of political economy studies of class, neoliberalism, and globalization as well as feminist research on the interconnectedness between paid employment and social reproduction. Overall, we make the case for attending to how class, gender, racialization and/or ethnicity, citizenship, and other forms of difference are core constitutive elements in employment-related Mobility processes. At the end of the paper, we illustrate our approach with short empirical case studies of two mobile workers who came to Canada from the Philippines.
Maggi W.h. Leung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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‘Read ten thousand books, walk ten thousand miles’: Geographical Mobility and capital accumulation among Chinese scholars
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2012Co-Authors: Maggi W.h. LeungAbstract:International movements of scientists and researchers have become more common in the increasingly inter-connected global knowledge economy. Geographic Mobility is often perceived as a key to academic excellence and career advancement by scholars, especially in advanced economies. In China, where international Geographical Mobility is a newly-gained privilege after the advent of the Open Door Policy, academics belong to one of the most mobile subsets of the population. This paper interrogates the impact of academic Mobility at the individual level among Chinese scholars who have conducted research visits in Germany. Specifically, the paper operationalises the equivocal notion of personal development with the concepts of capital accumulation and conversion (after Pierre Bourdieu). Drawing upon findings from 64 in-depth interviews with Chinese scholars of postdoctoral level or above and six key informants, and a postal survey (123 Chinese scholars with Mobility biography to Germany), this paper illustrates how Geographical Mobility can be conceptualised as a form of capital that can be accumulated and converted to cultural, social, economic and symbolic capital. While Geographical Mobility is predominantly considered as a capital for positive self- and professional development, examples also demonstrate the potential detrimental effect on social capital, especially among young Chinese scholars. Using an agent-centred approach, this paper argues against a mechanical translation of Geographical Mobility to capital accumulation, but for a grounded understanding of the highly individualised and contextualised development processes.
Barbara Neis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Occupational Health and Safety and the Mobile Workforce: Insights From a Canadian Research Program.
New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS, 2019Co-Authors: Barbara Neis, Katherine LippelAbstract:Globally, employment-related Geographical Mobility (Mobility to and within work) is a pervasive aspect of work that has potential health and safety implications. As an introduction to this special ...
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fragile synchronicities diverse disruptive and constraining rhythms of employment related Geographical Mobility paid and unpaid work in the canadian context
Gender Place and Culture, 2018Co-Authors: Barbara Neis, Lachlan Barber, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Natasha Hanson, Christine Knott, Stephanie Premji, Elise ThorburnAbstract:Household, journey-to-work, and workplace dynamics intersect and are diverse and changing. These intersections contribute to gendered, classed, and racialized divisions of labour at home, at work, and on the road. Research on journeys-to-work has generally focused on journeys that happen daily, follow similar routes, at similar times, and involve travel to a single, fixed workplace. Time geography has shared some of this focus in its attention to fixity and constraints that shape these kinds of movements in time and space. However, change and disruption in home lives, journeys-to-work and in the location and scheduling of work are widespread. Feminist intersectional rhythmanalysis may be better equipped to address these. This article draws on insights from a body of Canadian research captured here in the form of 5 vignettes that describe intersecting home, work, environmental and employment-related Geographical Mobility (E-RGM) rhythms and some of their consequences across diverse groups, sectors ...
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towards a feminist political economy framework for analyzing employment related Geographical Mobility
Studies in Political Economy, 2015Co-Authors: Sharon R. Roseman, Pauline Gardiner Barber, Barbara NeisAbstract:This article develops a feminist political economy framework for analyzing employment-related Geographical Mobility. We emphasize the relevance of political economy studies of class, neoliberalism, and globalization as well as feminist research on the interconnectedness between paid employment and social reproduction. Overall, we make the case for attending to how class, gender, racialization and/or ethnicity, citizenship, and other forms of difference are core constitutive elements in employment-related Mobility processes. At the end of the paper, we illustrate our approach with short empirical case studies of two mobile workers who came to Canada from the Philippines.
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at the crossroads geography gender and occupational sector in employment related Geographical Mobility
Canadian Studies in Population, 2014Co-Authors: Michael Haan, Deatra Walsh, Barbara NeisAbstract:In Canada, patterns of employment-related Geographical Mobility (E-RGM) are becoming more complex and nuanced, with implications for employers, workers, and their families. This article introduces the concept of E-RGM, and argues that because Mobility is a pervasive aspect of working lives in Canada, it deserves more systematic and extensive research. To date, most studies of labour Mobility have focused on permanent relocation or short-distance daily commuting. We argue for more research that disaggregates the socio-economic characteristics of those engaged in E-RGM and untangles its complexity. Using the 2006 Canadian confidential master file to create a statistical portrait of E-RGM reveals considerable variation among the Canadian working population, particularly those engaging in more extensive work journeys.