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Hansen, Niles – Social Science Quarterly, 1982
Describes a study which examined the job location preferences of 1981 high school seniors from three very poor, predominantly Mexican-American cities in south Texas. Results indicated that students were willing to move to take advantage of better economic opportunities. There was a tendency to shun Chicago and Detroit. (AM)
Descriptors: Employment, High Schools, Mexican Americans, Relocation

Spitze, Glenna – Social Science Quarterly, 1984
The effects of family migration (1) are negative for employment status, weeks worked, and earnings, null for weeks unemployed, and marginal for attitudes; (2) are similar for married women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s; and (3) do not last beyond the first or second year after a move. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitudes, Employed Women, Employment

Stoddard, Ellwyn R. – Social Science Quarterly, 1973
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Housing, Housing Discrimination, Low Rent Housing

Giles, Michael W.; And Others – Social Science Quarterly, 1975
This article focuses on the relationship between the black/white ratio and white withdrawl from desegregated public schools in eight Florida school districts. Although a threshold was found at which the rate of rejection increased, their findings do not support the tipping point theory of resegregation. (Author/DE)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Racial Discrimination, Racial Distribution, Racial Relations

May, Peter J. – Social Science Quarterly, 1982
The relationships among people's satisfaction with current living conditions, expectations concerning future conditions, and prospective mobility are examined for residents of large cities. Research results show that efforts to enhance expectations of improved physical conditions will help to nullify outmigration from central cities as well as…
Descriptors: Community Satisfaction, Expectation, Futures (of Society), Quality of Life