Essays on residential trajectories and social ties in the stage of early adulthood (Dissertation)

Abstract

This PhD thesis tackles from an empirical and quantitative perspective the influence of social ties on geographical mobility behaviour and decision-making. The dissertation is composed of three lines of research all framed in Life Course theory and taking advantage of Event-History techniques to analyze individual residential biographies of young adults. The first essay deals about the influence of the extended family structure on the probability of long distance mobility(i.e. further than 50 km) in West Germany. The second essay analyses leaves and returns to the parental home in the UK. The third essay sheds light on the multifaceted effect of ties' proximity on migration propensity in the different stages of decision-making and behaviour.