Digital Nomad Mobility
This project studies digital nomad mobility as an emerging form of digitally enabled urban movement. It asks how individual movement forms a global city network, which cities occupy central or intermediary positions, and how the resulting inequalities relate to established urban and migration hierarchies.
Candidate mechanisms
- Geographic arbitrage between income and living costs
- Remote work infrastructure and internet quality
- Visa and regulatory accessibility
- Urban amenities, climate, and environmental conditions
- Existing tourism, migration, and knowledge networks
- Agglomeration and cumulative network effects
Analytical direction
The first stage reconstructs temporal city to city mobility networks and measures hierarchy, concentration, communities, and change over time. The second stage tests proposed drivers through causal or hypothesis based models. The final stage examines nonlinear and heterogeneous effects using interpretable machine learning.