Family ties that bind: A new view of internal migration, immobility and labour-market outcomes

The FamilyTies project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 740113).

The FamilyTies project has been designed to make a decisive contribution to a much more comprehensive explanation of internal migration and its labour-market outcomes than current, mainly economic, explanations have achieved thus far. By introducing a novel perspective on internal migration and immobility, the ‘family ties perspective’, this ERC project aims to identify the role of family ties in internal migration, immobility and labour-market outcomes.

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