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Geographic mobility

Index Geographic mobility

Geographic mobility is the measure of how populations and goods move over time. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 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.

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Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events.

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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.

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Caste

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.

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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.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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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.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Climate

Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.

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College

A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.

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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.

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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).

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Coping

Coping refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions.

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Correlation

In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Economic efficiency

In microeconomics, economic efficiency, depending on the context, is usually one of the following two related concepts.

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Education reform

Education reform is the name given to the goal of changing public education.

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Elasticity (economics)

In economics, elasticity measures the responsiveness of one economic variable to a change in another.

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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.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.

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Empowerment

Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eurobarometer

Eurobarometer is a series of public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the European Commission and other EU institutions since 1973.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Family

Family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Incentive

In general, incentives are anything that persuade a person or organization to alter their behavior to produce the desired outcome.

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Income

Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Individual mobility

Individual human mobility is the study that describes how individual humans move within a network or system.

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Individualism

Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.

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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.

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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.

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Interpersonal ties

In social network analysis and mathematical sociology, interpersonal ties are defined as information-carrying connections between people.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Labor mobility

Labor or worker mobility is the geographical and occupational movement of workers.

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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.

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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.

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List of countries by unemployment rate

This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.

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Loan

In finance, a loan is the transfer of money by one party to another with an agreement to pay it back.

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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.

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Marital status

Civil status, or marital status, are the distinct options that describe a person's relationship with a significant other.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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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.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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National Bureau of Statistics of China

The National Bureau of Statistics is a deputy-ministerial level agency directly under the State Council of China.

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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.

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Perception

Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Preference

In psychology, economics and philosophy, preference is a technical term usually used in relation to choosing between alternatives.

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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.

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Probability

Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur.

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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".

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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).

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Real estate economics

Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets.

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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.

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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.

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Retirement

Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life.

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Risk

In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening.

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Sex worker

A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis.

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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.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Transport

Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another.

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Travel

Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_mobility

Also known as Population mobility, Population turnover.

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