Tied down or room to move? Investigating the relationships between housing tenure, employment status and residential mobility in Britain

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 369-392

  Böheim, René ^a   Taylor, Mark P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HOUSING MARKET; INTERNAL MIGRATION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MOBILITY; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 9144271159     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.00237     Document Type: Article

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