The consequences of divorce and splitting up for spatial mobility in the UK

Comparative Population Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 405-432

  Feijten, Peteke ^a   van Ham, Maarten ^b,c,d  

^a The Netherlands Institute for Social Research   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

BHPS; Divorce; Housing career; Longitudinal data; Spatial mobility; Splitting up; Union dissolution; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884357862     PISSN: 18698980     EISSN: 18698999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4232/10.CPoS-2013-10en     Document Type: Article

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