I'm looking for sociological/economic articles that attempt to
quantify the cost of changing jobs and the cost of moving. I saw some
articles of interest i the bibliography of the last page of this pdf:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/gpoeconomica01.pdf
The problem is I can't find them on the internet and I don't have time
to track them down at the library. So see if you can find the full
text of these or similar articles.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 29 May 2004 23:05 PDT

Hello Gnu,

I can provide you with links to the following articles. You may
download each publication for free.

- Residential mobility, housing tenure and the labour market in Britain 
René Böheim and Mark Taylor
37 pages

- Does Housing Circumstance Affect Employee Stability?
Andrew Henley  
37 pages

-  Family Migration Decisions 
Mincer J.
54 pages

- A Conjecture on the Explanation for High Unemployment in the
Industrialized Nations: Part I
Andrew J. Oswald
41 pages

- Why do firms reimburse job applicants' relocation costs?
Jos van Ommeren
29 pages


Would this be a suitable answer to your question?

Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by gnu-ga on 30 May 2004 09:35 PDT

Ok, so I'm most interested in these questions:
- when people move to a new area, what is their "quality of life" cost
related to the fact that they don't know the area and they don't have
any friends
- when people switch jobs, ignoring the cost of moving, how big are
the main "costs" in the sense of readjusting to the new job, not
knowing any co-workers, etc

I know this sort of stuff is rarely written down as a dollar cost, but
Andrew Oswald (among others) has done similar analysis, such as
calculating the "happiness cost of a divorce" - that is, if you get a
divorce, how much cash would you have to receive to make you as happy
as you were before the divorce.

From the titles, I can't tell if these particular articles do much
analysis of the cost of moving. I'm not interested in housing-related
issues - I can figure out the cost of a house on my own. I suspect
"Family Migration Decisions" and "Why do firms reimburse..." might do
the kind of analysis I'm interested in, but I can't tell without
reading the  article. You be the judge. If these articles don't deal
with my issues, it might be better to look elsewhere on the 'net.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 30 May 2004 11:00 PDT

Dear Gnu,

Thank you for your clarification. Given that you need to check out the
publications that I found, I will post my findings in the comment box
for your review before posting an official answer.

Sincerely,
Bobbie7

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 01 Jun 2004 13:42 PDT

Hello Gnu,

Have you seen the publications that I posted in the comment box?

If this in not what you have in mind, let me know and I will search
for different publications.

Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by gnu-ga on 01 Jun 2004 16:40 PDT

They're ok, but could be better. Search around for half an hour and
see what else you can find. If you can't find anything more related to
what I wanted in my first clarification, your existing information
will be good enough.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 01 Jun 2004 16:43 PDT

Hi Gnu!

I'll do some more research and I hope to locate additional publications for you.

Thanks,
Bobbie7

Hello again Gnu,

One of the articles from the bibliography you mentioned is available
for download for JSTOR subscribers only; however you may order a copy
of this paper if you?re not a subscriber.

Search Model with Job Changing Costs: ?Eurosclerosis? and
Unemployment?, by Burgess, Simon M
Oxford Economic Papers, 44, 75-88.

Abstract 

?The paper proposes a framework for studying the effects of
job-leaving costs and job-acceptance costs on labor-market
transitions. These are incorporated into a general model of on-the-job
search with null offers, quitting, and layoffs. It is shown that both
types of costs raise the duration of unemployment and the inflow into
unemployment as well as reduce the job-to-job mobility. The paper
generalizes previous results by looking at a wider class of search
models and considering all the individual's transition possibilities.?
http://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/oxecpp/v44y1992i1p75-88.html

http://econpapers.hhs.se/article/oupoxecpp/v_3A44_3Ay_3A1992_3Ai_3A1_3Ap_3A75-88.htm

http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc/data/Articles/oupoxecppv:44:y:1992:i:1:p:75-88.html

Article provided by Oxford University Press in its journal Oxford Economic Papers.
Volume (Year): 44 (1992)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 75-88


Access to full text is restricted to JSTOR subscribers; however you
may order a copy.

Order Information: http://www.oup.co.uk/journals

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Below you will find links to the publications that I gave you previously.



Mincer J. (1978), ?Family Migration Decisions?, Journal of Political
Economy, 86, 749-773.
54 pages
Download full text here:
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w0199.v5.pdf


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Why do firms reimburse job applicants' relocation costs?
Jos van Ommeren
Piet Rietveld
30/05/02
29 pages
Abstract: We develop an equilibrium job search model in which employees incur
commuting costs, and residential relocation is costly. We demonstrate that firms
partially compensate workers for the incurred relocation costs to avoid paying
compensation for commuting costs.
Download full text here:
http://www.raumplanung.uni-dortmund.de/rwp/ersa2002/cd-rom/papers/516.pdf

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The Effect Of Job Accessibility And Neighborhood Characteristics On
Employment Stability Of Welfare Leavers In An Urban Labor Market
Claudia Coulton, Neil Bania, Laura Leete and Thomas Cook Center on
Urban Poverty and Social Change Case Western Reserve University
115 pages
http://povertycenter.cwru.edu/Final%2000ASPE358A.pdf

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Jason P. Schachter, Leif Jensen, and Gretchen T. Cornwell
Migration, Residential Mobility, and
Poverty in Rural Pennsylvania
6 pages
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/rdp/rdp698/rdp698f.pdf

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Labor
Swedens Assault on Labor
by Samantha Sparks 
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/05/mm0592_10.html

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Career Decisions
http://www.aafa.com/perspect3.html

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The political economy of working lives: economic restructuring, fields
of intervention, learning partnerships and policy
http://www.esrea.org/conferences/Esrea%202004/ESREA-papers/greenwo.pdf

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Residential mobility, housing tenure and the labour market in Britain
René Böheim and Mark Taylor
Institute for Social and Economic Research
and Institute for Labour Research
University of Essex
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
email: rene@essex.ac.uk, taylm@essex.ac 
37 pages
Download full text here:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ilr/eeeg/Conference1/BoheimTaylor.pdf


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Does Housing Circumstance Affect Employee Stability? *
Andrew Henley
University of Wales Aberystwyth
October 1998
37 pages
Download full text here:
http://users.aber.ac.uk/arh/jten1998.pdf


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A Conjecture on the Explanation for High Unemployment in the
Industrialized Nations: Part I
Andrew J. Oswald
Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
UK41 pages
Download full text here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/unempap.pdf

I hope the information provided is helpful even though I was not able
to locate additional relevant publications.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Hello again Gnu,

Here are my findings for your review. If this meet your needs please
let me know and I will gladly post this information as the official
answer to your question and receive the fee.

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Mincer J. (1978), ?Family Migration Decisions?, Journal of Political
Economy, 86, 749-773.
54 pages
Download full text here:
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w0199.v5.pdf


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Why do firms reimburse job applicants' relocation costs?
Jos van Ommeren
Piet Rietveld
30/05/02
29 pages
Abstract: We develop an equilibrium job search model in which employees incur
commuting costs, and residential relocation is costly. We demonstrate that firms
partially compensate workers for the incurred relocation costs to avoid paying
compensation for commuting costs.
Download full text here:
http://www.raumplanung.uni-dortmund.de/rwp/ersa2002/cd-rom/papers/516.pdf

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The Effect Of Job Accessibility And Neighborhood Characteristics On
Employment Stability Of Welfare Leavers In An Urban Labor Market
Claudia Coulton, Neil Bania, Laura Leete and Thomas Cook Center on
Urban Poverty and Social Change Case Western Reserve University
115 pages
http://povertycenter.cwru.edu/Final%2000ASPE358A.pdf

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Jason P. Schachter, Leif Jensen, and Gretchen T. Cornwell
Migration, Residential Mobility, and
Poverty in Rural Pennsylvania
6 pages
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/rdp/rdp698/rdp698f.pdf

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Labor
Swedens Assault on Labor
by Samantha Sparks 
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/05/mm0592_10.html

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Career Decisions
http://www.aafa.com/perspect3.html

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The political economy of working lives: economic restructuring, fields
of intervention, learning partnerships and policy
http://www.esrea.org/conferences/Esrea%202004/ESREA-papers/greenwo.pdf

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Residential mobility, housing tenure and the labour market in Britain
René Böheim and Mark Taylor
Institute for Social and Economic Research
and Institute for Labour Research
University of Essex
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
email: rene@essex.ac.uk, taylm@essex.ac 
37 pages
Download full text here:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ilr/eeeg/Conference1/BoheimTaylor.pdf


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Does Housing Circumstance Affect Employee Stability? *
Andrew Henley
University of Wales Aberystwyth
October 1998
37 pages
Download full text here:
http://users.aber.ac.uk/arh/jten1998.pdf


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A Conjecture on the Explanation for High Unemployment in the
Industrialized Nations: Part I
Andrew J. Oswald
Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
UK41 pages
Download full text here:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/unempap.pdf

I am looking forward to your comments.

--Bobbie7