“Mobility Areas: Geographical and Skilled Distances in Profession Mobility“
Sida Liu and Anson Au
Journal of Utilized Behavioral Science
Printed on-line: December 2024
Summary: This text introduces the novel idea of “mobility areas” to research the function of geographical {and professional} distances in profession mobility and the way they’re influenced by social structural elements. Mobility areas embody bodily, social, and authorized areas that professionals navigate whereas shaping their profession trajectories over time. The research focuses on the motion of pros throughout mobility areas and analyzing the constraints and alternatives affecting their profession paths. Utilizing empirical knowledge on the mobility of Hong Kong regulation agency companions from 1994 to 2021, the article demonstrates that social structural elements resembling gender, race and ethnicity, agency origins, and agency status considerably affect the geographical {and professional} distances that professionals handle to traverse of their profession strikes. The mobility areas idea goals to make use of house to contextualize the interaction between particular person and macrostructural elements in shaping skilled profession outcomes.
