What motivates residential mobility? Re-examining self-reported reasons for desiring and making residential moves

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 354-371

  Coulter, Rory ^a   Scott, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Life course; Migration; Motivation; Reason; Residential mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928433837     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1863     Document Type: Article

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