Table of Contents
95 relations: Activity space, Anxiety, Birth rate, Caste, Census, China, Circular migration, City, Climate, College, Community, Competition, Coping, Correlation, Credit, Cultural diplomacy, Culture, Current Population Survey, Demography, Developing country, Development Research Center of the State Council, Driver's license, Dwelling, Economic efficiency, Education reform, Elasticity (economics), Emigration, Employment, Empowerment, England, Eurobarometer, European Union, Family, Female, Freedom of movement, Gainful employment, Gender pay gap, Globalization, Health care, Home, Human capital flight, Human geography, Human migration, Incentive, Income, India, Individual mobility, Individualism, Information technology, International student, ... Expand index (45 more) »
Activity space
In social science, the activity space designates the "set of places individuals encounter as a result of their routine activities in everyday life." The activity space can include all relevant locations that an individual routinely go to, such as the place of residence, the workplace (or the place of study), but also gyms, supermarkets, or cinemas.
See Geographic mobility and Activity space
Anxiety
Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events.
See Geographic mobility and Anxiety
Birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years.
See Geographic mobility and Birth rate
Caste
A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.
See Geographic mobility and Caste
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population. Geographic mobility and census are population.
See Geographic mobility and Census
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
See Geographic mobility and China
Circular migration
Circular migration or repeat migration is the temporary and usually repetitive movement of a migrant worker between home and host areas, typically for the purpose of employment. Geographic mobility and Circular migration are human migration.
See Geographic mobility and Circular migration
City
A city is a human settlement of a notable size.
See Geographic mobility and City
Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
See Geographic mobility and Climate
College
A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.
See Geographic mobility and College
Community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.
See Geographic mobility and Community
Competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game).
See Geographic mobility and Competition
Coping
Coping refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions.
See Geographic mobility and Coping
Correlation
In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data.
See Geographic mobility and Correlation
Credit
Credit (from Latin verb credit, meaning "one believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party wherein the second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt), but promises either to repay or return those resources (or other materials of equal value) at a later date.
See Geographic mobility and Credit
Cultural diplomacy
Cultural diplomacy is a type of soft power that includes the "exchange of ideas, information, art, language and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding".
See Geographic mobility and Cultural diplomacy
Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
See Geographic mobility and Culture
Current Population Survey
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 60,000 U.S. households conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
See Geographic mobility and Current Population Survey
Demography
Demography is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.
See Geographic mobility and Demography
Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
See Geographic mobility and Developing country
Development Research Center of the State Council
Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council of China is a public institution responsible for policy research, strategic review and consulting of issues related to the economic and social development on mainland China.
See Geographic mobility and Development Research Center of the State Council
Driver's license
A driver's license, driving licence, or driving permit is a legal authorization, or the official document confirming such an authorization, for a specific individual to operate one or more types of motorized vehicles—such as motorcycles, cars, trucks, or buses—on a public road.
See Geographic mobility and Driver's license
Dwelling
In law, a dwelling (also known as a residence, abode or domicile) is a self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home – such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, recreational vehicle, or other "substantial" structure.
See Geographic mobility and Dwelling
Economic efficiency
In microeconomics, economic efficiency, depending on the context, is usually one of the following two related concepts.
See Geographic mobility and Economic efficiency
Education reform
Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education.
See Geographic mobility and Education reform
Elasticity (economics)
In economics, elasticity measures the responsiveness of one economic variable to a change in another.
See Geographic mobility and Elasticity (economics)
Emigration
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Geographic mobility and Emigration are human migration and population.
See Geographic mobility and Emigration
Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
See Geographic mobility and Employment
Empowerment
Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities.
See Geographic mobility and Empowerment
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
See Geographic mobility and England
Eurobarometer
Eurobarometer is a series of public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the European Commission and other EU institutions since 1973.
See Geographic mobility and Eurobarometer
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
See Geographic mobility and European Union
Family
Family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).
See Geographic mobility and Family
Female
An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.
See Geographic mobility and Female
Freedom of movement
Freedom of movement, mobility rights, or the right to travel is a human rights concept encompassing the right of individuals to travel from place to place within the territory of a country,Jérémiee Gilbert, Nomadic Peoples and Human Rights (2014), p. 73: "Freedom of movement within a country encompasses both the right to travel freely within the territory of the State and the right to relocate oneself and to choose one's place of residence".
See Geographic mobility and Freedom of movement
Gainful employment
Broadly, gainful employment refers to an employment situation where the employee receives steady work, payment from the employer and that allows for self-sufficiency.
See Geographic mobility and Gainful employment
Gender pay gap
The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working.
See Geographic mobility and Gender pay gap
Globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
See Geographic mobility and Globalization
Health care
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
See Geographic mobility and Health care
Home
A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or more human occupants, and sometimes various companion animals.
See Geographic mobility and Home
Human capital flight
Human capital flight is the emigration or immigration of individuals who have received advanced training at home. Geographic mobility and Human capital flight are human migration.
See Geographic mobility and Human capital flight
Human geography
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban redevelopment.
See Geographic mobility and Human geography
Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).
See Geographic mobility and Human migration
Incentive
In general, incentives are anything that persuade a person or organization to alter their behavior to produce the desired outcome.
See Geographic mobility and Incentive
Income
Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.
See Geographic mobility and Income
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
See Geographic mobility and India
Individual mobility
Individual human mobility is the study that describes how individual humans move within a network or system.
See Geographic mobility and Individual mobility
Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
See Geographic mobility and Individualism
Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.
See Geographic mobility and Information technology
International student
International students or exchange students, also known as foreign students, are students who undertake all or part of their secondary or tertiary education in a country other than their own.
See Geographic mobility and International student
Interpersonal ties
In social network analysis and mathematical sociology, interpersonal ties are defined as information-carrying connections between people.
See Geographic mobility and Interpersonal ties
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
See Geographic mobility and Japan
Labor mobility
Labor or worker mobility is the geographical and occupational movement of workers.
See Geographic mobility and Labor mobility
Labour law
Labour laws (also spelled as labor laws), labour code or employment laws are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government.
See Geographic mobility and Labour law
Language barrier
A language barrier is a figurative phrase used primarily to refer to linguistic barriers to communication, i.e. the difficulties in communication experienced by people or groups originally speaking different languages, or even dialects in some cases.
See Geographic mobility and Language barrier
List of countries by unemployment rate
This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.
See Geographic mobility and List of countries by unemployment rate
Loan
In finance, a loan is the transfer of money by one party to another with an agreement to pay it back.
See Geographic mobility and Loan
Male
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.
See Geographic mobility and Male
Marital status
Civil status, or marital status, are the distinct options that describe a person's relationship with a significant other.
See Geographic mobility and Marital status
Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.
See Geographic mobility and Marriage
Migrant worker
A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. Geographic mobility and migrant worker are human migration.
See Geographic mobility and Migrant worker
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
See Geographic mobility and Morocco
National Bureau of Statistics of China
The National Bureau of Statistics is a deputy-ministerial level agency directly under the State Council of China.
See Geographic mobility and National Bureau of Statistics of China
Opportunity cost
In microeconomic theory, the opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone where, given limited resources, a choice needs to be made between several mutually exclusive alternatives.
See Geographic mobility and Opportunity cost
Perception
Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.
See Geographic mobility and Perception
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
See Geographic mobility and Philippines
Preference
In psychology, economics and philosophy, preference is a technical term usually used in relation to choosing between alternatives.
See Geographic mobility and Preference
Privatization
Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.
See Geographic mobility and Privatization
Probability
Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur.
See Geographic mobility and Probability
Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
See Geographic mobility and Public health
Real estate appraisal
Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of developing an opinion of value for real property (usually market value).
See Geographic mobility and Real estate appraisal
Real estate economics
Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets.
See Geographic mobility and Real estate economics
Relocation (personal)
Relocation, also known as moving, or moving house, is the process of leaving one's dwelling and settling in another. Geographic mobility and Relocation (personal) are human migration.
See Geographic mobility and Relocation (personal)
Remittance
A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland.
See Geographic mobility and Remittance
Retirement
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life.
See Geographic mobility and Retirement
Risk
In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening.
See Geographic mobility and Risk
Sex worker
A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis.
See Geographic mobility and Sex worker
Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
See Geographic mobility and Sociology
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
See Geographic mobility and South Korea
Structural inequality
Structural inequality occurs when the fabric of organizations, institutions, governments or social networks contains an embedded cultural, linguistic, economic, religious/belief, physical or identity based bias which provides advantages for some members and marginalizes or produces disadvantages for other members.
See Geographic mobility and Structural inequality
Suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.
See Geographic mobility and Suburb
Termination of employment
Termination of employment or separation of employment is an employee's departure from a job and the end of an employee's duration with an employer.
See Geographic mobility and Termination of employment
Tradition
A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
See Geographic mobility and Tradition
Transfer payment
In macroeconomics and finance, a transfer payment (also called a government transfer or simply fiscal transfer) is a redistribution of income and wealth by means of the government making a payment, without goods or services being received in return (in contrast to Financial transaction).
See Geographic mobility and Transfer payment
Transport
Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another.
See Geographic mobility and Transport
Travel
Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations.
See Geographic mobility and Travel
Travel visa
A visa (lat. 'something seen', pl. visas) is a conditional authorization granted by a polity to a foreigner that allows them to enter, remain within, or leave its territory. Geographic mobility and Travel visa are human migration.
See Geographic mobility and Travel visa
Unemployment
Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period.
See Geographic mobility and Unemployment
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
See Geographic mobility and United States
United States census
The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
See Geographic mobility and United States census
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
See Geographic mobility and United States Census Bureau
Urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.
See Geographic mobility and Urban area
Welfare
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter.
See Geographic mobility and Welfare
Workforce
In macroeconomics, the labor force is the sum of those either working (i.e., the employed) or looking for work (i.e., the unemployed): \text.
See Geographic mobility and Workforce
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See Geographic mobility and World War II
References
Also known as Population mobility, Population turnover.