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Cromartie, John B. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1993
A longitudinal survey, conducted 1979-88, indicates that young adults leaving nonmetro areas followed complex migration patterns normally involving multiple moves, including 15% who returned from cities to counties of origin. Rural outmigration rates and patterns differed by race and ethnicity, income, and geographic proximity to urban areas.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Income, Migration Patterns
Gibbs, Robert M.; Cromartie, John B. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1994
A comparison of outmigration and inmigration rates for nonmetropolitan counties during 1985-90 reveals that high levels of outmigration in rural areas among young adults are mitigated by inmigration of this age group; that net outmigration is more severe among college-educated young people; and that high net-loss counties are distinguished by low…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Counties, Educational Attainment, Migration Patterns
