Moving after Separation: The Role of Location-specific Capital

Clara Mulder and Michael Wagner

Housing Studies, 2012, vol. 27, issue 6, 839-852

Abstract: This paper addresses the role of location-specific capital—the ties that bind people to a place—in which ex-partners of two-sex couples move after separation or divorce. The study uses data from the first and second waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (N = 361) to test hypotheses on the impact of individual homeownership, prior residential history, and the nearby presence of parents on whether a separated person moves. Who owned the home and whether someone's ex-partner moved in upon partnership formation are of prime importance to whether a separated person moves. Furthermore, separated persons whose parents live nearby and those who have a long history of living in the same municipality have a smaller probability of moving than other separated persons.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.651109

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