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Posts by Alon Pertzikovitz

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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study explores how geographical distance between adult children of immigrants and their parents changes in response to partnership formation and partnership dissolution. Background .....

🚨New publication!

Together with Kalmijn, Das, and de Valk, we study how parent-child geographic proximity changes with partnership transitions across
(i) migrant groups
(ii) genders

We highlight the roles of kinship norms and family dependence

🔓Check it out
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study explores how geographical distance between adult children of immigrants and their parents changes in response to partnership formation and partnership dissolution. Background .....

🚨New publication!

Together with Kalmijn, Das, and de Valk, we study how parent-child geographic proximity changes with partnership transitions across
(i) migrant groups
(ii) genders

We highlight the roles of kinship norms and family dependence

🔓Check it out
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

6 days ago 3 2 0 0

Join the pre-EPC workshop in Bologna by the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration:

“Global perspectives in lifetime migration data infrastructures”

A great lineup of presenters from 4 different world regions 🌎🌍🌏

Register here: iussp.workshop@gmail.com

Full program details:
iussp.org/sites/defaul...

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🤩The 2nd paper of my thesis, a joint work with Gusta Wachter and Matthijs Kalmijn, is now published in International Migration Review!

We find that concentrated family networks explain why children of immigrants are less geographically mobile than their Dutch counterparts:

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

1 year ago 5 2 1 0
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Residential Mobility in Childhood and Union Dissolution Later in Life - European Journal of Population The limited existing literature studying the effects of childhood residential mobility suggests that it influences a range of life outcomes, at least in young adulthood. Little is known about how the ...

📄🍾 happy to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis, a great collaboration with Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social and Helga de Valk is now out in the ENJP

🏘️📦 We ask whether moving in childhood has lasting effects on individuals’ life courses.
Short answer: yes
Longer answer:
doi.org/10.1007/s106...

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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!

10 months ago 13 4 1 0
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📢📢 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-...

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New from me: "Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers" familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/p...

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How do demographic trends shape kinship networks? This replication study compares Swedish & Dutch kinship networks, showing how fertility patterns & divorce rates impact family ties across generations. #Replication #Kinship #POPNET. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @bokanyie.bsky.social

11 months ago 18 3 1 1
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New paper on the effect of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration, using data on 24,000 Ukrainian women. Now published in Journal of Peace Research. With @yuliyakosyakova.bsky.social and Irena Kogan.

11 months ago 6 2 0 0

The impact of violence and COVID-19 on Mexico’s life-expectancy losses and recent bounce-back, 2015–22
doi.org/10.1093/ije/...
Paper in @intjepidemiol.bsky.social by @jdzazueta.bsky.social @paola.vazquez.dk @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumna @thegargiulian.bsky.social & NSRF José Manuel Aburto

11 months ago 6 4 1 0
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The positive effect of the initial young age structure balanced out population losses from negative net migration in Central & Eastern Europe from 1990 to 2020.
📢My new paper on population dynamics is out!😀
#demography #fertiliy #migration #Hungary #Poland
osf.io/preprints/so...

1 year ago 7 1 0 0
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New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷

Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
#EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution

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• 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 (University of Queensland), and Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona). The proposed special issue aims to leverage a trajectory-based approach that fully accounts for the multi-dimensional nature of migration across time and space, providing deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications.

• 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…

1 year ago 11 14 0 0

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Leisure: Definitions, Trends, and Policy Implications - Population Research and Policy Review Economic theories predict that with modernity and with the increase in standards of living, individuals will aspire for more leisure. However, the results of empirical studies which examined period tr...

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Do sports clubs, music associations, and community groups help bridge ethnic divides? New #OpenAccess paper with @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social: “Brittle Bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations”. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-... A thread about the main insights:

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Figure 1. Rent change, income change, and rent-income ratios at the bottom and top quintiles of the income distribution.
Source: Socio-Economic Panel version 38.1.
Note: The second, third, and fourth quintiles are omitted. All measures are adjusted to adult equivalents with the new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development scale. Monetary values are adjusted for inflation.

Share on social media Figure 1. Rent change, income change, and rent-income ratios at the bottom and top quintiles of the income distribution. Source: Socio-Economic Panel version 38.1. Note: The second, third, and fourth quintiles are omitted. All measures are adjusted to adult equivalents with the new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development scale. Monetary values are adjusted for inflation.

📣 new #article

Housing cost burden of migrants and natives across the income distribution.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Key findings
▪️ rent burden is distributed increasingly unequal
▪️ the polarization is more pronounced among migrants
▪️ migrants faced steeper rent hikes than natives

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In a new IZA WP (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I show that intergenerational income mobility and its underlying mechanisms vary strongly across parents’ income. We present 3 main findings:

1/4 #EconSky #SocSky

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Thank you for this! Would love to be added :)

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Residential Mobility in Childhood and Union Dissolution Later in Life - European Journal of Population The limited existing literature studying the effects of childhood residential mobility suggests that it influences a range of life outcomes, at least in young adulthood. Little is known about how the ...

📄🍾 happy to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis, a great collaboration with Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social and Helga de Valk is now out in the ENJP

🏘️📦 We ask whether moving in childhood has lasting effects on individuals’ life courses.
Short answer: yes
Longer answer:
doi.org/10.1007/s106...

1 year ago 4 1 0 1
Why Are Children of Immigrants Less Geographically Mobile? Examining the Role of Economic Disadvantage and Family Networks - Alon Pertzikovitz, Gusta G. Wachter, Matthijs Kalmijn, 2024 Previous work has found that adult children of international migrants in Western Europe have lower internal migration rates than individuals of native origin. T...

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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🤩The 2nd paper of my thesis, a joint work with Gusta Wachter and Matthijs Kalmijn, is now published in International Migration Review!

We find that concentrated family networks explain why children of immigrants are less geographically mobile than their Dutch counterparts:

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

1 year ago 5 2 1 0
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🛎️ Excited to share that my thesis’s 1st paper, coauthored by Helga de Valk and Gusta Wachter, is now published.

📉 We explore how internal migration in childhood has developed over time across Europe.
📈🤱 And link recent trends to delayed fertility.

Check it out: doi.org/10.1002/psp....

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