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Foulkes, Matt; Schafft, Kai A. – Rural Sociology, 2010
Poverty is frequently conceptualized as an attribute of either people or places. Yet residential movement of poor people can redistribute poverty across places, affecting and reshaping the spatial concentration of economic disadvantage. In this article, we utilize 1995 to 2000 county-to-county migration data from the 2000 United States decennial…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Residential Patterns, Rural Areas, Counties
Eisenberg, Michael – 1975
The following four hypotheses were tested: (1) nonmetropolitan areas with the highest percentages employed in industry in 1960 will experience the greatest inmigration between 1965-70; (2) those with a high percentage employed in agriculture will experience the lowest amounts of inmigration; (3) those areas with small farm size and low farm income…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Census Figures, Correlation, Distance