Horowitz Jonathan, Entwisle Barbara
University of Toronto.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Soc Forces. 2021 Sep;100(1):29-55. doi: 10.1093/sf/soaa098. Epub 2020 Oct 21.
Do life course events stimulate migration during the transition to adulthood? We identify nine specific life events in the family, education, and employment domains and test whether they lead to migration in the short term, using fixed-effects models that remove the influence of all stable individual-level characteristics and controlling for age. Marital and school completion events have substantively large effects on migration compared to individual work transitions, although there are more of the latter over the young adult years. Furthermore, young adults who are white and from higher class backgrounds are more likely to migrate in response to life events, suggesting that migration may be a mechanism for the reproduction of status attainment. Overall, the results demonstrate a close relationship between life course events and migration, and suggest a potential role for migration in explaining the effect of life course events on well-being and behavior.
人生历程事件会在向成年期过渡期间刺激迁移吗?我们确定了家庭、教育和就业领域中的九种特定人生事件,并使用固定效应模型来检验它们是否会在短期内导致迁移,该模型消除了所有稳定的个体层面特征的影响并控制了年龄因素。与个人工作转变相比,婚姻和学业完成事件对迁移具有实质性的重大影响,尽管在青年成年期个人工作转变的情况更多。此外,来自较高阶层背景的白人青年成年人更有可能因人生事件而迁移,这表明迁移可能是实现地位获得的一种机制。总体而言,研究结果表明人生历程事件与迁移之间存在密切关系,并暗示迁移在解释人生历程事件对幸福感和行为的影响方面可能发挥作用。