This report charts the changing role and nature of geographical mobility in organisational strategies and career development. It explores the work and family life experiences of employees and partners who have faced job-related geographical mobility. Geographical mobility: Family impacts: highlights geographical mobility as a key cross-cutting policy issue; outlines the rationale for geographical mobility and traces the impacts of such mobility on employee and partner careers; traces the impacts of geographical mobility on individuals and families at different stages of the life course; emphasises the diversity of relocation experiences; draws out associated implications for policy. · This report is important reading for researchers, policy makers and practitioners concerned specifically with relocation, migration and labour markets. It is of particular relevance to those working in human resources, economic development and employment policy.

This is the second in a series of analytical reports prepared by demographers in the Bureau of the Census. These occasional papers include broad speculative analysis and illustrative hypotheses by the authors as an aid in understanding the stati.

Social research pamphlet on the social psychology of the departure process in migration - develops aggregate models of duration-specific propensity to move (incl. Labour mobility). References.