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Wilson, Franklin D. – 1984
This paper explores the following questions: Does the demand/supply allocation process affect the return migrants receive for their human capital attributes? Specifically, do returns to migration vary across places of destination, and does this variation reflect labor supply and demand differentials and/or other characteristics of places of…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Attainment, Employment Opportunities, Family Mobility
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Price, Michael – 1985
This analysis of demographic and economic impacts of migration compared samples of nonmigrants, inmigrants, and outmigrants for Kentucky from 1975 to 1980. Age, gender, race, birth place, educational attainment, income, and labor force characteristics were compared for the three groups. Inmigrants, including intrastate migrants, were compared on…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Educational Attainment, Income
Fasick, Frank A.; Dexter, Carolyn R. – 1992
Economic decline in a community offering opportunities for higher education was studied as a contributing factor to extensive upward mobility among persons beginning their occupational careers. One process through which mobility into professional occupations by individuals whose fathers were manual workers ("elite" mobility) was documented--the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Blue Collar Occupations, Economic Change, Educational Attainment
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van der Tak, Jean, Ed. – Population Bulletin, 1982
Recent trends in the dynamics and character of the U.S. population, outlook for the remainder of 1980s, and prospects for long-term growth are reviewed. Estimated at 232 million as of mid-1982, the U.S. population is currently growing at about 1 percent/year, one of the developed world's highest growth rates. Natural increase (births minus deaths)…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Educational Attainment, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Current Population Reports, 1989
A wide range of information on demographic, social, and economic trends is brought together in this report. Nineteen sections present statistical information on such topics as population trends, geographic mobility, educational attainment, fertility, poverty, blacks, Hispanics, and the elderly. Sources of data and a subject specialist who can…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Employment