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Residential Mobility of One-Person Households
Residential Mobility of One-Person Households
Working Paper Number SIPP-WP-50
This paper describes recent developments in the population of one-person households in the Federal Republic of Germand and the United States. In the following section the data used in the analysis is discussed and a framework for describing the coincidence of changes in household composition and residential mobility is introduced. Based on representative panel data on one-person households in the US and the FRG, the empirical part of the paper concentrates on those households which acquire additional members or change dwellings and the extent to which both types of change occur simultaneously. The formation of new one-person households is similarly discussed and the two processes are then examined in combination to consider how they interact to determine the aggregate number of one-person households in each of the two countries. Finally, methods to include the formation and dissolution of one-person households in models of residential mobility are discussed and exploratory results using a logit regression model are presented.
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