ABSTRACT
Induced moves are related to employment and life-cycle factors (Figure 10.1). Traditionally the life-cycle concept refers to the explicit material needs of families as they move through the various stages of the reproductive cycle. A number of major life-cycle events have been related to residential adjustment or relocation3 (Table 10.1). More recently the life-cycle concept has been reformulated as the less-deterministic concept of the life course. This avoids age stereotypes and acknowledges that economic and cultural factors can induce households at the same life-cycle stage to adopt different residential behaviours.
