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Chen, Shuang; Adams, Jennifer; Qu, Zhiyong; Wang, Xiaohua; Chen, Li – International Review of Education, 2013
In the context of China's increasing rural-urban migration, few studies have investigated how parental migration affects children's experience in school. The high cost of schooling, taken together with the institutional barriers in destination cities, have compelled many rural parents in China to migrate without their children, leaving them in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Rural Areas, Migrant Workers, Foreign Countries

Stoltman, Joseph P.; Ball, John M. – Human Organization, 1971
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Employment Opportunities, Migration Patterns

Cook, Annabel Kirschner – Rural Sociology, 1987
Compares influence of employment growth/diversity, commuting, retirement migration, income, unemployment, age structure, and adjacency with influence of nonfarm self-employment and percentage of labor force that is female on recent declines in nonmetropolitan growth rates. Suggests last two variables are more important determinants of…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Females, Migration Patterns
Lee, Anne S.; Bowles, Gladys K. – 1974
Implicit or explicit national governmental actions designed to perpetuate, change conditions, maintain the status quo, or introduce change (although not designed for that purpose) are known as policy. Some of these actions relate directly to population distribution from early land grants to present urban renewal and rural development activities.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Government Role, Human Services, Individual Characteristics

Malecki, Edward J. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2003
Data on rural-urban differences in access to telecommunications technology suggest that the U.S. "digital divide" is diminishing. However, major shortcomings in telecommunications infrastructure persist in rural America, and more serious barriers to rural development are related to human capital shortages. These may be resolved in some…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Entrepreneurship, Human Capital

Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. Economic Development Div. – 1975
From 1940 to 1970, the United States was characterized by both rapid population growth and rapid urbanization. However, in the 1970's, both of these trends have diminished. A decline in the birth rate has brought lower overall growth--with the decline being the greatest in the major metropolitan areas. There is firm evidence of shift in population…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Economic Development, Farm Labor
Beale, Calvin L. – 1975
U.S. Census data (1970-74) comparing population trends in the West were analyzed in reference to the recent urban to rural migration patterns exemplified by a total U.S. metropolitan population growth of 3.4 percent vs a nonmetropolitan growth of 5.6 percent (1970-74). In the West it was found that: (1) population increased 6.9 percent with…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Futures (of Society), Migration Patterns, Population Growth

Cahill, Edward E. – Phylon, 1974
With reference to rural-urban, nonmetropolitan to metropolitan migration of blacks, three major questions are addressed: What is the overall trend of the distribution of the black population by rural urban residence? What are the most pronounced trends of recent movement since 1950? What are the demographic effects of migration on the rural black…
Descriptors: Black Population Trends, Metropolitan Areas, Migration Patterns, Racial Distribution
Loebl, Andrew S.; Campbell, Rex R. – 1974
The traditional dichotomies of urban and rural may no longer be valid. Investigating whether or not there are socially significant areal units to redefine rural and urban areas, the report described one attempt to delineate such units and to test them for sociological utility. Counties were placed in homogeneous social units based upon the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Classification, Concept Formation, Definitions
Wheelock, Gerald C. – 1978
A preliminary model of community economic development processes, consisting of a system of simultaneous equations, is used to describe how these processes influence changes in median family income and income inequality. The analysis was performed on 61 racially mixed counties in Alabama, using 1960-70 census data. Social and demographic variables…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Community Development, Economic Change
Hansen, Niles M. – 1971
Economic problems in rural and urban settings are discussed in this book. Central cities, suburbs, and rural areas are examined with particular emphasis on problems and opportunities in the South and in the Appalachian region. The regional commissions (the Ozarks Region, New England, etc.) and the role of the Economic Development Administration…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Influences, Demography, Economic Development

Adamchak, Donald J. – Rural Sociology, 1987
Surveys importance of economic and environmental factors in motivation of metro- and nonmetro-origin migrants relocating in 13 Kansas nonmetropolitan nonamenity turnaround counties. Finds employment-related reasons predominate, with economic characteristics of counties a significant factor. Quality of life/environmental reasons were less…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Employment
Goodwin, H. L., Jr.; Thomas, John K. – 1985
Analysis of census data indicates major population, industrial, and occupational changes occurred in many of Texas' 254 counties from 1960 to 1980. While 103 counties experienced rapid population growth by both natural and migration, patterns of change were dissimilar. Population grew steadily in metropolitan counties over the two decades.…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Economic Change, Economic Development, Employment Opportunities
RAMSEY, RALPH J. – 1967
PERPLEXING PROBLEMS HAVE ARISEN BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION PATTERN OF YOUNG ADULTS FROM RURAL AREAS TO URBAN CENTERS IN THE UNITED STATES. SOME OF THESE PROBLEMS INCLUDE--(1) YOUTH ADJUSTING TO THE ADULT WORLD, (2) MOVING FROM THE SUB-CULTURE WHERE EARLY TRAINING WAS RECEIVED TO A DIFFERENT SUB-CULTURE, AND (3) PREPARATION FOR THE CONTINUALLY…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Behavior, Blacks
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1975
Compiled to provide access to some of the latest resource material, research findings, and/or developments in rural education, this bibliography supplements the previous publications, providing cumulative coverage. Part 1 of this supplement contains 196 citations and abstracts taken from the July 1974-March 1975 issues of "Resources in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Agricultural Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Citation Indexes
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