Elias Hofmann

Lastly, although women have lower overall income gains than men when moving for work, the additional effects of moving longer distances on incomes are similar👥

Happy to discuss our paper in more detail!🤓

We explore potential structural reasons behind this 'step', finding that neither moves between labour market regions and into urban areas (both associated with high financial rewards) explains this pattern🏙️ This may indicate that there are inherent differences between short- vs long-distance moves🚶

Furthermore, we find that the 'distance premium' does not increase linearly - instead, the strongest differences in income gains are between movers over more or less than 200 km🤔.

This 'step' is robust to the use of different wage measures and housing cost adjustment💵.

The Income Returns of Moving for Work: Does Distance Matter? The positive link between work-related moves and income is well-established, but little robust evidence exists on whether the distance moved matters in this relationship. There are, however, theoreti....

First PhD paper (with Nico Stawarz, Heiko Rüger and Clara H. Mulder) now out #OA in #PSP: We explore the relationship between moving distance and income returns, finding that overall, work-related movers gain more when moving across longer distances💸📈

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Exciting presentations, posters, talks and panel discussions on last week's #AkadSoz25 in Mainz!🤩📈 Really enjoyed presenting our weekend commuting project!🤓👥

We're hiring!🔔

Roselinde van der Wiel & Matthijs Kalmijn are looking for a PhD researcher for a project on how #jointphysicalcustody arrangements after separation shape—and are shaped by—parents’ #spatialmobility and #repartnering

‼️Interested? Apply before October 20th!

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Just had a productive week at #DGS2025 Duisburg, presenting findings on costs and benefits of weekend commuting as a spatial adaptation strategy for couples!👥
Also: Great keynote by @marioluissmall.bsky.social on interaction between big data and fieldwork; along with other fascinating research!🏙️

Delighted to come back to my alma mater @wisocologne.bsky.social for an excellent #ECSR2025 conference! Big thanks to the local organising team - and to many brilliant colleagues for their inspiring presentations and posters!😃🤓🤩

Great to get feedback on our weekend commuting paper from the well-being/QoL people at #ISQOLS2025 in Luxembourg - and to listen to an inspiring keynote by Lord Richard Layard, alongside other fascinating research!😃

Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”!

Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe.

Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!

📢📢 Workshop this wednesday!

"Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course"

📌 June 18th 10.00-13.00 CEST
🌍 at ‪@cedemografia.bsky.social‬ and on zoom

Info and registration: ced.cat/seminaris-i-...

• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025)

Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…

Looking forward to being there!😃

Just arrived in Barcelona!🧳 Looking forward to a productive two weeks of exchange with @svidal.bsky.social and his team at @lifelongmove.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat!📈🤓
If you are in town & want to talk about spatial mobility of couples and well-being, just pop me a message.🌞👥

Great list! Would also love to be added!

The idea has matured - and so have I!🤓 Just presented the current (now submitted) paper on distance gradients in income gains from internal migration building on my MT at the DGD (German Demographic Society) conference 2025😃

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”

Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

Visualizing the Housing Cost Burden of Migrants and Natives across the Income Distribution - Nils Witte, 2024 A majority of German households are occupied by renters. There are indications of growing inequality through disproportional income increases among high-income ...

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die vollständige Studie gibt's hier:
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english version with replication package:
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Die Abbildung zeigt die Entwicklung der Mietkostenbelastung zwischen 1990 und 2020 am obersten und untersten Quintil der Einkommensverteilung. Am oberen Ende der Verteilung blieb die Mietkostenbelastung relativ stabil, am unteren Ende der Verteilung stieg die Belastung an. Bei Zugewanderten mit niedrigen Einkommen war die Steigerung von niedrigem Niveau kommend besonders ausgeprägt.

Zunehmend ungleiche Mietkostenbelastung

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• Mietkostenbelastung insbesondere für Personen mit Niedrigeinkommen angestiegen
• Ungleichheit der Mietkostenbelastung bei Zugewanderten stärker angestiegen
• Realeinkommensverluste bei Personen mit Niedrigeinkommen

Special issue, CfP: Spatial mobility and subjective well-being

Short or extended abstracts by March 31st, and full articles by September 30th.

Details link.springer.com/collections/...

Great time with my peeps at the BiB-PhD-workshop; inspiring papers and discussions, an insightful panel debate on how to prepare for a productive PostDoc, and the most relevant input on how to assume lead(ership) roles during PhD!😃📈
Thank you @tamilwhy.bsky.social & Lidia Gutu for organizing!

Group photo of phd students

When winter feels the longest, we fortunately organize our own PhD-peer workshop at BiB! The ‘wall of compliments’ – where only pep talk is allowed – was a good balance to useful and critical feedback to my paper 🙏 Thanks @eliashofmann.bsky.social and everyone else! #phdlife #populationgeography

Here's a starter pack for happiness/SWB researchers. It's a pretty small list at this point; I've mainly used profile searches, with limited results.

So, happy to add people by request.

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Extremely honored to have received a DGD award for my MT on “The effect of moving distance on income returns in Germany”. Shout-out to my supervisors Prof. Clara Mulder ( @unigroningen.bsky.social) and Prof. Michael Wagner (University of Cologne), and my current colleagues at the BiB!

Really happy about the great feedback I received for my paper on internal migration and subjective well-being at #YoungDemographers conference in Prague! It has been a great experience, grateful to the organising team!

Do motives of internal migration vary with distance? In a short report based on German panel data we find that this is the case - but that the picture is more complex than you would think 🤔 (report in German, happy to answer questions🤓)

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