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来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.62,P.436-457

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英文

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Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor001;Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529"}]}},"correspondences":{"cor001":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor001

摘要

This paper empirically investigates the role of social capital in households' residential mobility behavior by considering its spatial dimension. This study focuses on a household's social ties with people living nearby, which we refer to as its “local social capital.” Local social capital may deter residential mobility, because the resources stemming from them are location-specific and will be less valuable if a household moves. We conjecture that a household's possession of local social capital has a negative effect on its residential mobility, and this negative effect of local social capital may be stronger on long-distance mobility than on short-distance mobility. Our empirical investigation is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We obtain evidence which is supportive of these conjectures.