In the U.S., white parents may choose to send their children to private schools in response to the local concentration of minority schoolchildren, commonly referred to as "white flight". This paper contributes to the existing literature by providing new evidence on white flight from the data set High School and Beyond (HSB). I find that a…

This paper includes both a description and analysis of two factors associated with migration: occupational achievement and household composition. Principal comparisons throughout are between the black and nonblack samples, and within each sample, between migrants and nonmigrants. The extent to which geographical mobility takes place is documented…

This report describes the migration of college students into Iowa to attend colleges and universities in the state. The report suggests that there is more than a three-to-one ratio of arrivals to departures, and the state economy is improved by the presence of out-of-state students. Together, the first-year students who came to Iowa contributed…

Concludes that low ratios of net to gross migration at higher levels of education are the result of greater regional income equality, due to the efficiency of past migration. (BH)

Analyzes factors affecting refugee outcomes in those areas preceding and succeeding flight. Indicates that, although refugee situations may appear unique, recurring elements offer explanations of the events actually observed and enable the prediction of the course that future events may take. (Author/MK)

Negro migration patterns between 1955-60 appear to have been influenced by income, welfare payments, past employment growth, and population size, but not by unemployment. (BC)

Surveys the importance of migration trends in the United States away from the Northeastern urban areas into the sunbelt states of the West and Southwest. Emphasis is placed on ways in which this demographic transformation disturbs social, economic, and political arrangements. (DB)

Examines results of several studies bearing upon the migration of talent: predicting state-to-state migration of talent; characteristics of migrants and non-migrants; migration from high school to doctorate to first post-doctoral job; migration and quality of the university; and migration and state educational and economic characteristics.…

Real income is used in developing and empirically testing this cost and returns approach to migration theory. (BH)

Examination of the 1979 income status of 1975-80 in-migrants, out-migrants, and nonmigrants in 223 nonmetropolitan low-income counties in the South indicates that migration had very little influence on income, whether subpopulation mean incomes or aggregate dollar amounts. Contains 42 references. (SV)

This study provides migration trends for black and nonblack students who scored highest on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT). The nonblack sample of 51,096 consisted of all those who had obtained an NMSQT score of 137 or above -- about 2 percent of all 11th graders obtain scores this high. The black sample of 8,162 included…

The six chapters of this book explore various issues concerning the annual migration of older Canadians to Florida. The study is based on a survey, of 4,500 subscribers to "Canada News" in Florida, that received 2,731 responses. Among the issues examined are the following: (1) where older Canadians are living in Florida; (2) the…

This UNITAR News Issue presents the background and working papers prepared and utilized by the participants in a workshop on Planning for Internal Migration held in Jamaica and Cuba in April 1976. This workshop, attended by planners and government officials from the Caribbean and some Latin American countries, convened to discuss mutual problems…

This study examines the background characteristics of two large national samples of first-time enrolled freshmen who (a) attended college within their state of residence but away from their home community, (b) migrated to a college in an adjacent state, (c) migrated to a college in a distant state, and (d) attended college in their home community.…

International migration is not always accompanied by unusual levels of stress. This is especially true when movement occurs within the same sociocultural area (i.e., from the West Indies to South Florida). Historically, West Indians have participated in a "culture of migration" that enables them to migrate and assimilate without unusual…