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Cromartie, John B. – Rural America, 2001
Analysis of annual county-level migration estimates indicates that in recent decades, migrants to the rural South have persistently favored areas with specific attractions: urban access, high-tech jobs, and favorable climates. As migrants are younger and better educated than the overall population, such patterns exacerbate rural development…
Descriptors: Counties, Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Migration Patterns
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Saraceno, Elena – Journal of Rural Studies, 1994
Examines the need to reconsider spatial conceptualizations and categories such as urban-rural and core-periphery in light of two recent trends: migration out of cities and the geographic redistribution of economic activities. Suggests that these trends and related policy issues would be better articulated in a regional or local economy framework.…
Descriptors: Definitions, Demography, Economic Development, Economic Factors
Foucher, Michel – 1995
This monograph, published as part of the project "A Secondary Education for Europe," offers some basic data on the contemporary human geography of the European continent, with a focus on central and eastern Europe. The document first describes civic issues in the teaching of geography and cartography of the new Europe. The basic…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
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Long, Larry; DeAre, Diana – 1982
In the late 1970s both jobs and population were growing more rapidly outside metropolitan areas. As a group, nonmetropolitan counties not adjacent to a metropolitan area experienced a faster rate of employment growth than metropolitan areas between 1975-79. Even in rural counties (no urban place of 2,500 or more) not adjacent to a metropolitan…
Descriptors: Change, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Development
Bradshaw, Ted K.; Blakely, Edward J. – 1981
Using in-person questionnaires, 553 newcomers and 106 long-term residents were interviewed in late 1979 and early 1980 in 5 small northern California communities to explore the role of newcomers in developing the rural economy, and especially to analyze the resources emigrants bring with them: their skills, education, background, and business and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Community Services, Decision Making
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John, Patricia La Caille – 1993
This bibliography contains 137 entries related to population migration in rural America. The entries were derived from the AGRICOLA database produced by the National Agricultural Library and include journal articles, government reports, conference papers, extension bulletins, and books. Entries cover such topics as demography, economic growth,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Demography, Economic Development, Migrant Workers