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Vacancy Chain Analysis

Vacancy chain analysis is a system model of mobility, introduced by Harrison White in his 1970 book Chains of Opportunity, that follows opportunities rather than people. When a unit such as a house or a job is freed and filled by someone who in turn vacates another unit, a chain of moves cascades through the system until it ends with a new entrant or a unit leaving the stock. By treating vacancies as the things that move — through an absorbing Markov chain — the framework explains how a single new dwelling or retirement can ripple into many household relocations or promotions.

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Vacancy Chain Analysis (White's Chains of Opportunity)

Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / human-geography

White, H. C. (1970). Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organizations. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. · ISBN 9780674080652

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