1 Comparative research, selected themes and data characteristics.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Themes and content.- 1.3 Data sources and spatial systems.- 1.4 Conclusions.- I Components of Population Change.- 2 Population projection: Dutch and English multiregional methods.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Forecasting requirements.- 2.3 Multiregional population modelling: the bare necessities.- 2.4 Projection models.- 2.5 Conclusions.- 3 The components of natural change.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.I The United Kingdom.- 3.2 Spatial variability.- 3.3 Crude rates at county and district level.- 3.4 Spatial variations in standardized rates.- 3.5 Conclusion.- 3.II The Netherlands.- 3.6 Fertility at national level.- 3.7 Fertility rates at provincial and COROP-region level.- 3.8 National life expectancy and mortality.- 3.9 Mortality at provincial and COROP-region level.- 3.10 Conclusion.- 4 Internal migration.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.I The United Kingdom.- 4.2 Migration data: transitions and moves.- 4.3 The level of migration.- 4.4 Spatial characteristics of migration.- 4.5 Conclusion.- 4.II The Netherlands.- 4.6 Spatial interaction models.- 4.7 A descriptive model of internal migration.- 4.8 The components of migration.- 4.9 A view of the future.- II Specific Migration Streams.- 5 Labour migration.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.I Socio-economic selectivity in labour migration in Great Britain.- 5.2 Patterns of occupational migration.- 5.3 Explanations of socio-economic migration differentials.- 5.4 Vacancy filling and migration.- 5.5 Internal labour markets and occupational mobility: two case studies.- 5.6 Conclusion.- 5.II Selective migration in the Dutch labour force.- 5.7 Scale and distance in regional migration.- 5.8 Internal migration and the changing distribution of the population.- 5.9 Selective mobility based on socio-demographic and economic disaggregation.- 5.10 Conclusion.- 6 Racism and international migration.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6 2 Immigration to the Netherlands.- 6.3 Government response.- 6.4 Immigration to Britain.- 6.5 Immigration, government control and labour demand.- 6.6 The racialization of migrant labour and the politicization of race.- 6.7 Conclusion.- 7 Migration of the elderly.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Migration rates by age.- 7.3 Levels and trends in later age migration.- 7.4 Marital status and migration rates.- 7.5 Net migration and settlement size and type.- 7.6 The geography of late age migration.- 7.7 Conclusion.- III Population, Households and Housing.- 8 Demographic change, household evolution and housing needs.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.I England and Wales.- 8.2 Life cycle stages in household formation and development.- 8.3 Secular changes in housing consumption.- 8.4 Household formation by the young.- 8.5 Demographic trends in housing demand.- 8.6 Conclusions.- 8.II The Netherlands.- 8.7 The data set.- 8.8 Household evolution and the housing market.- 8.9 Household changes during the life cycle.- 8.10 Household composition and housing needs.- 8.11 Conclusions.- 9 Residential mobility.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.I Residential mobility and tenure in Scottish cities.- 9.2 The Scottish context.- 9.3 Characteristics of moves and migrants.- 9.4 Tenure and mobility.- 9.5 Conclusion.- 9.II Intra-urban migration in the Netherlands and processes of neighbourhood change.- 9.6 Intra-urban migration: the present situation and expected developments in the housing market and neighbourhood change.- 9.7 The influence of local government policy and the residential environment on residential mobility.- 9.8 Conclusion.- 10 The housing market as a source of urban demographic and social change: the impact of flat break-ups in London and condominium conversion in the Netherlands.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 The geography of housing tenure change.- 10.3 Tenure change and social change in Inner London’s purpose-built private flat sector.- 10.4 Tenure change and social change in the Dutch large cities.- 10.5 Conclusion.- 11 1983, 1986, …..- References.