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Acta Geographica Sinica ›› 2014, Vol. 69 ›› Issue (2): 147-155.doi: 10.11821/dlxb201402001

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The correlated decision process of house moving and job change and its heterogeneity：A case study of Beijing

YU Jianhui1,2, DONG Guanpeng1,3, ZHANG Wenzhong1,2, CHEN Li5,6, DANG Yunxiao1,2,4   

  1. 1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
    3. University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8 1TH, United Kingdom;
    4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    5. School of Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    6. Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, CAS, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2013-01-18 Revised:2013-12-01 Online:2014-02-20 Published:2014-02-20
  • Contact: 张文忠（1966-），男，内蒙古呼和浩特人，博士生导师，研究员，中国地理学会会员（S110005239M），主要从事城市和区域发展研究。E-mail：zhangwz@igsnrr.ac.cn E-mail:zhangwz@igsnrr.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.41201169;No.41230632; "135" Strategic Technology Program, IGSNRR, No.2012ZD006; National Science andTechnology Support Program, No.2012BAJ15B02; Peking University-Lincoln Institute of Urban Developmentand Land Policy Research Center Dissertation Fellowship

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Abstract: People's decision of residential mobility in the housing market and decision of job change in labor market play an essential role in the formation and dynamics of urban spatial structure. In the traditional urban geographical view, job change is just a factor, which affects the decision of residential mobility. But this paper tries to investigate the correlated decision process of residential mobility and job change, and studies their heterogeneity in this interrelationship using the large-scale survey sample of residential living of Beijing in the year of 2009. Based on the bivariate discrete analysis, some conclusions are drawn as follows: (1) People's decision of residential mobility is significantly positively correlated with the decision of job change, indicating that these two dimensional decisions are in fact a correlated decision process rather than two independent decisions. (2) There is heterogeneity in the correlated decisions of residential mobility and job change. More specifically, the interrelationship between the decisions of residential mobility and job change in groups without Beijing hukou, renters and single worker households is more intensive than that in groups with Beijing hukou, owners and multiworkers households. Institutional obstacle of housing and labor market, migration costs caused by family demographics and commuting costs are the main contributing factors in the process of correlated decisions. (3) There is great heterogeneity in the determinants of residential relocation and job change among groups in terms of housing tenure, household registration status and family employment structure. Different groups have various main factors during the process of correlated decisions. The factor of commuting costs only works in the group of renters and single worker households. Institutional obstacle of housing and labor market is the main factor during the decision process of the people with Beijing hukou, owners and multi-worker households. Migration costs caused by family demographics are the basic consideration when multi-worker households make decisions.

Key words: job change, bivariate discrete choice models, Beijing, residential mobility, collaborative decision-making