The aim of this paper is to examine population migration Moscow Oblast. Oblast belongs a small number Russia’s regions characterized by intensive and diverse migration. region attracts migrants from other federal subjects Russia as well abroad, there are also distinct flow originating in within the borders itself. motives for analyzed separately studied flows along with factors region’s attract...

Since the collapse of socialism in Hungary 1989, political and economic factors increased residential mobility between Budapest its agglomeration area. Social disparities have become more pronounced not only among settlements agglomeration, but also within them. This paper identifies different status-dependent paths general process suburbanization using official statistical data, survey intervi...

This study analyzes the effect of accessibility to jobs and houses at both the home and work ends of trips on commuting duration for respondents to a household travel survey in metropolitan Washington, DC. A model is constructed to estimate the effects of demographics and relative location on the journey to work. Analysis finds that residences in job-rich areas and workplaces in housing-rich ar...

Drawing attention to the governing role of capital accumulation and its interaction with the state, this study examines the dynamics of the new wave of suburbanization in China, which is characterized by the development of new towns. New towns essentially function as a spatial fix in China’s contemporary accumulation regime. Rather than resulting from capital switching from the primary to the s...

The spatial mismatch hypothesis is that large differences in black/white employment patterns could be produced by race-neutral employers, were there discrimination in the housing market combined with the suburbanization of work. Debate over the hypothesis hinges on employer intentions: do they use relocation as a tool to alter the racial makeup of their workforces? Prior work has foundered on t...