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Peer reviewedCook, Annabel Kirschner – Rural Sociology, 1987
Compares influence of employment growth/diversity, commuting, retirement migration, income, unemployment, age structure, and adjacency with influence of nonfarm self-employment and percentage of labor force that is female on recent declines in nonmetropolitan growth rates. Suggests last two variables are more important determinants of…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Females, Migration Patterns
McCarthy, Kevin F. – 1984
In this paper significant demographic trends in the United States are described and anlyzed in relation to their implications for education. Focus is placed on six major trends. (1) The United States is moving toward zero population growth, and the long term prospect for school enrollment is for decline. (2) The age structure of the population is…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Planning, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Peer reviewedBriody, Elizabeth K. – International Migration Review, 1987
Results of field research conducted in South Texas during 1982-1983 suggest that immigration leads to downward social mobility with respect to legal status of household members, type of employment, and property ownership. Hypothesizes that household immigration from Mexico is a response to new opportunity structures and widening employment…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Family (Sociological Unit)
Peer reviewedMorokvasic, Mirjana – International Migration Review, 1984
Introduces a special issue on women and migration. Discusses immigrant women's participation within the world labor market, the ideologies affecting them, the effects of migration on sex roles and family patterns, and women's reasons for migration. Also discusses sex biases in research and policymaking concerning migration. (KH)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Family Relationship
Download full textClark-Lewis, Elizabeth – 1985
Experiences of black women, who migrated from the rural south to the District of Columbia between 1900 and 1926, are examined in order to illustrate the nature of household work during this period. While previous research on black private household workers usually attributed changes in household labor to architectural and technological trends,…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Employment, Black Population Trends, Employed Women
Ehrenreich, Barbara, Ed.; Hochschild, Arlie Russell, Ed. – 2003
This volume explores the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide, as each year millions leave their third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of first world countries. This mass migration results in a transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles that creates a "care…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregivers, Child Care, Demand Occupations
