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Foulkes, Matt; Schafft, Kai A. – Rural Sociology, 2010
Poverty is frequently conceptualized as an attribute of either people or places. Yet residential movement of poor people can redistribute poverty across places, affecting and reshaping the spatial concentration of economic disadvantage. In this article, we utilize 1995 to 2000 county-to-county migration data from the 2000 United States decennial…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Residential Patterns, Rural Areas, Counties
DeJong, Gordon F. – 1976
In order to test the hypothesis that size of place of residence and urban proximity preferences constitute factors in population dispersal migration behavior, a random sample of 777 Pennsylvania households plus a sample screened for moving probability (N=319) were surveyed via personal interviews in 1974. A follow-up survey on actual migration…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Size, Correlation, Distance