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Current Perspectives on Spatial Mobilities

Conferences and Workshops

Jointly organized with: Spatial Mobility Working Group of the Urban and Regional Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS)

In the context of the digital transformation driven by COVID-19-induced changes in the labor market, educational system, and society in general, processes of spatial mobility are as relevant as ever. For instance, the widespread use of telework is decoupling individuals’ and households’ decisions about where to live and where to work. COVID-19 and lockdowns changed perceptions of what constitutes desirable and appropriate places to work, study, and live.

The influx of refugees into European countries following 2015 entailed many newcomers whose decisions about where to work and where to live are shaping their host countries in many respects. Research on refugees’ spatial mobility within host countries is therefore indispensable, especially in light of current events following the military conflict in Ukraine.

There have been significant methodological advances in recent years, with new data types being used for spatial mobility research. In particular, small-scale neighborhood-level and geolocated data allow for granulated analysis, while digital trace data from smartphones, sensors, or the Internet provide new and unique information. Combining these data with established survey or administrative data opens up promising new avenues for research.

In addition to these topics, the workshop will focus on a broad range of issues related to research on spatial mobilities, including internal migration, commuting, residential multi-locality, student mobility, virtual mobility, and others. Timely research on changing spatial mobility patterns and their implications for existing and emerging social inequalities is crucial. The workshop aims to bring together current research from sociologists, labor economists, demographers, geographers, and scholars from related fields.

A non-exhaustive list of topics is:

  • Spatial mobility in the labor market and the educational system
  • Mobility decisions of the unemployed
  • Gendered and household mobility patterns
  • Spatial mobility and social networks
  • Spatial mobility in the context of neighborhoods
  • (Im-)mobility patterns and mobility decision-making
  • Applications of innovative data sources, like geo-coded, linked, or digital trace data
  • New methods for analyzing spatial mobility

Date

30.3.2023 - 31.3.2023

Venue

Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Regensburger Strasse 100
Room Re100 E10
D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88909163708
Password: IAB

Keynote speakers

  • Clara Mulder (University of Groningen)
  • Sergi Vidal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Organisation

  • Sebastian Bähr (Institute for Employment Research, IAB)
  • Heiko Rüger (Federal Institute for Population Research, BiB)
  • Knut Petzold (Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences)

Conference fee and traveling Costs

There is no conference fee. IAB will sponsor refreshments and lunch during the workshop for all participants and the conference dinner (excluding beverages) on March 30 for presenters.

Programme

Programme for download (PDF not accessible)

Thursday, March 30, 2023

  • 10:30 a.m. Registration
  • 11:30 a.m. Lunch
  • 12:00 p.m. Welcome Address / Opening Speech
    Ulrich Walwei, Vice-Director of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg
  • 12:15 p.m. Introduction by Organizers
    Sebastian Bähr, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg
    Heiko Rüger (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden)
    Knut Petzold (Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (HSZG))
  • 12:30 p.m. Keynote Speech I
    Macro, micro and meso perspectives on spatial mobility
    Clara Mulder (University of Groningen)
  • 1:30 p.m. Short Break
  • 1:35 p.m. Session I: Environment and Mobility (Chair: Heiko Rüger)
    1. Green Space in the Residential Area and Moving Decisions: Does Green Neighborhood Matter?
    Tetiana Dovbishchuk, Stefanie Kley, University of Hamburg
    2. Selective Mobility Contributes to Immigrants’ Higher Exposure to Environmental Pollution: A Panel Analysis Spatially Linking Objective Air Quality Data and Micro-Level Survey Data for Germany and England
    Ingmar Ehler (Kaiserslautern Institute of Technology)
    Felix Bader (Berlin Institute for Social Science Research (BIS))
    Henning Best (Kaiserslautern Institute of Technology)
    Tobias Rüttenauer (University College London)
    3. Internal Migration as a Response to Soil Degradation: Evidence from Malawi
    Keiti Kondi (Université Catholique de Louvain)
    Stefanija Veljanoska (Université de Rennes)
  • 2:35 p.m. Short Break
  • 2:40 p.m. Session II: Cellphone Data and Mobility (Chair: Sebastian Bähr)
    4. Perpetual Motion: Human Mobility and Spatial Frictions in Three African Countries
    Paul Blanchard (Trinity College Dublin)
    Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford)
    Martina Kirchberger (Trinity College Dublin)
    5. The role of establishments in fostering ethnic urban mobility segregation: An analysis of cellphone data for the hundred-largest cities in the U.S. (2019)
    Àlex Giménez de la Prada (University of Bremen)
    Mario L. Small (Columbia University)
    Yanchao Wang (Northeastern University)
    6. Researching the im-/mobile via mobile phones: First lessons from an app-based RDS with rejected asylum seekers
    Randy Stache
    Lisa Johnson
    Laura Peitz
    (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Nuremberg)
  • 3:40 p.m. Coffee Break & Poster Session I
    P1. Determinants of regional mobility after job loss in Germany – the importance of family ties and home region characteristics
    Katrin Rickmeier (University of Bielefeld)
    P2. Fledging the nest – The role of family context and regional opportunities for transitions to adulthood
    Kars van Oosterhout
    Katarina Weßling
    (Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn)
    P3. Work flexibly, travel more healthily? How telework and flextime affect active travel in Switzerland
    Fabienne Wöhner, University of Bern
  • 4:10 p.m. Session III: Mobility and Segregation (Chair: Knut Petzold)
    7. There goes the “Auswahlbezirk” – Estimation of „White-Flight“-Effects using the German Microcensus
    Klaus Pforr (GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim)
    8. How do super-local network features shape residential segregation? A modified Schelling model
    Laura Fürsich (Linköping University)
    9. Housing environment preferences in a challenged neighbourhood
    Sören Petermann (Ruhr University Bochum)
  • 5:10 p.m. Break
  • 5:20 p.m. Session IV: Education-related mobility (Chair: Anette Haas)
    10. The gendered role of mobility in the realization of graduates’ career expectations
    Jonas Detemple (University of Bamberg, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB, Bonn)
    11. “Should I stay or should I go?” Prevalence and predictors of spatial mobility among youth in the transition to vocational education and training in Germany
    Linda Hoffmann (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn)
    Alexandra Wicht (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn, University of Siegen)
    12. The role of spatial mobility in realizing aspirations for VET occupations
    Katarina Weßling (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University)
    Laura Menzel (Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin)
    Alexandra Wicht (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn, University of Siegen)
    13. Study abroad experience and the gender wage gap
    Nicolai Netz
    Frauke Peter
    Fine Cordua
    (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), Hannover)
  • 6:40 p.m. End of the first workshop day
  • 8:00 p.m. Conference Dinner

Friday, March 31, 2023

  • 09:00 a.m. Keynote Speech II
    Longitudinal approaches in spatial mobility research
    Sergi Vidal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • 10:00 a.m. Break
  • 10:10 a.m. Session V: Geocoded Data, Mixed Methods and Mobility (Chair: Klaus Pforr)
    14. The Mobility Interview A Mixed Methods Instrument for Researching Everyday Mobility
    Christoph van Dülmen (University of Hamburg)
    15. Monitoring internal migration flows using origin–destination data based on Twitter user locations
    Long Nguyen (Bielefeld University)
  • 16. Spatial and social mobility in academic careers Mobility patterns, career stages and disciplinary peculiarities
    Benjamin Neumann, Sören Nonnengart (TU Dortmund University)
  • 11:10 a.m. Short Break
  • 11:15 a.m. Session VI: Residential Mobility (Chair: Sören Petermann)
    17. How many moves are too many? Lifelong internal migration trajectories, social networks and subjective well-being in later life
    Elisabeth Gruber (FAU University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
    Aude Bernard (The University of Queensland)
    18. The influence of migration patterns on the regional demographic development in Germany
    Julian Ernst
    Ralf Münnich
    Sebastian Dräger
    Jan Weymeirsch
    (Trier University)
    19. Why stay or move? Analysing self-reported reasons for past and future residential (im)mobility
    Aura Moldovan (Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, Braunschweig)
    Cornelia Tippel (ILS – Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund)
    Frank Osterhage (ILS – Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund)
    Annett Steinführer (Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, Braunschweig)
  • 12:15 p.m. Lunch break
  • 1:00 p.m. Session VII: Mobilities and Commuting (Chair: Nicolai Netz)
    20. How have commuting, internal and international migration changed over time? A trend study of three mobilities using German Microcensus data
    Nico Stawarz (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden)
    Andreas Genoni (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden, National Center of Competence in Research, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
    Heiko Rüger (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden)
    Thomas Skora (GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim)
    Andreas Ette (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden)
    Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
    Nikola Sander (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden)
    21. Fathers’ commutes to work and quality time spent with children
    Stefanie Hoherz (Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden)
    22. Changes in commuting mode choices and preferences following residential relocation: A pre-post event analysis in the Netherlands
    Yinhua Tao (Delft University of Technology)
    Ana Petrović (Delft University of Technology)
    Maarten van Ham (Delft University of Technology, University of St Andrews
    Xingxing Fu, Utrecht University)
    23. Commuting, gender and children
    Malte Borghorst (University Duisburg-Essen)
    Ismir Mulalic (Copenhagen Business School)
    Jos van Ommeren, VU University, Amsterdam
  • 2:20 p.m. Break
  • 2:30 p.m. Session VIII: Immigration, Mobility and Location Choice (Chair: Aura Moldovan)
    24. Does xenophobic behaviour influence migrant workers’ regional location choice?
    Anette Haas
    Tanja Buch
    Carola Burkert
    Stefan Hell
    Annekatrin Niebuhr
    (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg and Kiel)
  • 2:50 p.m. Coffee & Poster Session II
    P4. Can Moving to Opportunity Foster Political Integration?
    Valentina Consiglio (University of Konstanz)
    Thomas Kurer (University of Konstanz, University of Konstanz, University of Zürich (UZH))
    P5. Networked Learning in Global Mobility amid Transboundary Crises
    Johannes de Kam (University of Warwick)
    P6. Expectations meet reality: mobility-related trade-offs and coping strategies of relocated households in tight housing markets
    Verena Gerwinat
    Annika Wismer
    (TU Dortmund University)
    P7. Ongoing Intensification of Suburbanization? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internal Migration in Germany
    Tamilwai J. Kolowa
    Nico Stawarz
    Nikola Sander
    (Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB), Wiesbaden)
  • 3:20 p.m. Farewell
  • 3:30 p.m. End of workshop

Contact

Organizing Committee of the Current Perspectives on Spatial Mobilities workshop

Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

Dr. Sebastian Bähr

Regensburger Str. 104, D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany

E-mail: IAB.spatial-mobility@iab.de