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Bacon, Lloyd – Social Forces, 1973
Employs the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity'' data to test hypotheses about differences in migration selectivity depending on the structural distance traversed in the migration process. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Incidence, Migrants, Migration
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Donner, William; Rodriguez, Havidan – Social Forces, 2008
The changing demographic landscape of the United States calls for a reassessment of the societal impacts and consequences of so called "natural" and technological disasters. An increasing trend towards greater demographic and socio-economic diversity (in part due to high rates of international immigration), combined with mounting…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Population Growth, Migration, Social Capital
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And Others; Smith, Joel – Social Forces, 1979
Investigated in this article are several factors that affect the annexation by central cities of urbanized areas to retain decentralized populations. A multivariate model of the responses of central cities to over- and underboundedness is presented and evaluated. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Dropouts, Population Distribution, Population Trends, Statistical Studies
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Gurak, Douglas T.; Kritz, Mary M. – Social Forces, 2000
Analysis of the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample indicates that interstate migration during 1985-90 was less common for immigrant men than for non-Hispanic, White, native-born men. This difference was most strongly related to human capital factors (age, education, self-employment), followed by social capital factors (nativity group concentration)…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Ethnic Distribution, Ethnic Groups, Human Capital