TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Belot, Michèle
AU  - Ermisch, John
        TI  - Friendship Ties and Geographical Mobility: Evidence from the BHPS
        PY  - 2006/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2209
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2209
        AB  - A common finding in analyses of geographic mobility is a strong association between past movement and current mobility, a phenomenon that has given rise to the so called ‘mover-stayer model’. We argue in this paper that one of the driving forces behind this heterogeneity is the strength of local social ties. We use data from the BHPS on the location of the three closest friends and the frequency of contacts. We estimate the processes of friendship formation and residential mobility jointly, allowing for correlation between the two processes. Our results show that the location of the closest friends matters substantially in the mobility decision, and matters more than the frequency of contacts.
        KW  - friendship formation
KW  - social ties
KW  - geographical mobility
        ER  -