Adaptations in Youths’ Willingness to Be Spatially Mobile: Influence of Status Aspirations and Regional Disparities

Funding text 1: This article was written as part of the junior research group Career Orientations and Their Realization: Young People\u2019s Transitions to Vocational Education and Training in a Spatial Context, based at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). The work of the research groups is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Open access publication of this article was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).; Funding text 2: I would like to thank the editors of the thematic issue and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback. I am also very grateful to Professor Alexandra Wicht (University of Siegen and Federal Institute of Vocational Education and Training, Germany) for her valuable supervision in preparing this article. Earlier versions of this research were presented at the ISA World Congress of Sociology (June 30, 2023, Melbourne, Australia), the RC 28 Spring Meeting (May 18, 2024, Shanghai, China), the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (August 24, 2024, Porto, Portugal), and the 31st annual workshop \u201CTransitions in Youth\u201D (September 5, 2025, Warsaw, Poland). I would like to thank the participants for their helpful feedback. This article was written as part of the junior research group Career Orientations and Their Realization: Young People\u2019s Transitions to Vocational Education and Training in a Spatial Context, based at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). The work of the research groups is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Open access publication of this article was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).

Funding text 1: This article was written as part of the junior research group Career Orientations and Their Realization: Young People\u2019s Transitions to Vocational Education and Training in a Spatial Context, based at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). The work of the research groups is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Open access publication of this article was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).; Funding text 2: I would like to thank the editors of the thematic issue and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback. I am also very grateful to Professor Alexandra Wicht (University of Siegen and Federal Institute of Vocational Education and Training, Germany) for her valuable supervision in preparing this article. Earlier versions of this research were presented at the ISA World Congress of Sociology (June 30, 2023, Melbourne, Australia), the RC 28 Spring Meeting (May 18, 2024, Shanghai, China), the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (August 24, 2024, Porto, Portugal), and the 31st annual workshop \u201CTransitions in Youth\u201D (September 5, 2025, Warsaw, Poland). I would like to thank the participants for their helpful feedback. This article was written as part of the junior research group Career Orientations and Their Realization: Young People\u2019s Transitions to Vocational Education and Training in a Spatial Context, based at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). The work of the research groups is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Open access publication of this article was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).