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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 369–392.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Julie Park; Dowell Myers Abstract The new second generation of the post-1965 immigration era is observed as children with their parents in 1980 and again as adults 25 years later. Intergenerational mobility is assessed for both men and women in four major racial/ethnic groups, both in regard...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 829–849.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Microdata Sample from the 2000 U.S. decennial census is used to calculate migration rates by occupation and education. The analysis estimates the effects of these occupational mobility measures on the migration of couples and the earnings of married individuals. I find that migration rates in both...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 299–314.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Maury Gittleman; Mary Joyce Abstract We examine the mobility of individuals in the United States based on equivalent family income-that is, total income of all family members adjusted for family size according to the equivalence scale implicit in the U.S. poverty line. Our analysis, which tracks...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 525–538.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Scott J. South; Kyle D. Crowder Abstract Information from the 1979 to 1985 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics is merged with data on respondents’ tract and metropolitan area of residence to examine patterns and determinants of residential mobility between central cities and suburbs...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 249–270.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Barrett A. Lee; R. S. Oropesa; James W. Kanan Abstract This paper extends the search for neighborhood contextual effects to residential mobility. We propose that neighborhood consists of subjective and objective domains, both of which are crosscut by substantive (social/physical) and temporal...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 575–584.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Nan Marie Astone; Sara S. McLanahan Abstract This paper examines the hypothesis that high levels of residential mobility among nonintact families account for part of the well-known association between living in a nonintact family and dropping out of high school. Children from single-parent families...
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Michael J. White; Peter R. Mueser Abstract Analyses of residential mobility are usually conditioned on a system of geography in which territory is divided into discrete units. Types of movement are defined in terms of these units, the most important distinction being that between local mobility...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 265–270.
Published: 01 May 1987
...C. Jack Tucker; William L. Urton Abstract Migration data from supplements to the 1979 and 1980 National Health Interview Survey are analyzed in terms of repeat mobility over three-year intervals. Frequency of mobility is strongly related to age; whites move more frequently than blacks; males move...
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 261–277.
Published: 01 August 1982
.... Moore (Eds.), Population Mobility and Residential Change (pp. 99 – 148 ). Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University . Frey William H. ( 1980 ). Black In-Migration, White Flight and the Changing Economic Base of the Central City . American Journal of Sociology , 85 , 1396 – 1417...
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 291–299.
Published: 01 August 1982
... to fit well. The-changing heterogeneity over the ten-year period of observation is represented graphically. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1982 1982 Housing Market Exogeneous Variable Residential Mobility Direct Maximization Binary Series References Clark...
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Demography (1985) 22 (2): 199–222.
Published: 01 May 1985
...Nancy S. Landale; Avery M. Guest 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1985 1985 Home Ownership Initial Interview Residential Mobility Actual Mobility Housing Tenure References Ajzen I. , & Fishbein M. ( 1973 ). Attitudinal and normative...
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 565–579.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Theodore D. Fuller; Paul Lightfoot; Peerasit Kamnuansilpa Abstract An individual behavioral model of the decision-making process for rural-urban mobility is applied to longitudinal data from an area of Northeast Thailand where circular rural-urban movement dominates. The individual-level variables...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 125–135.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Ann Marie Sorenson Abstract In this article a diagonal mobility model is used to describe the relative effects of husbands’ and wives’ characteristics on fertility. Compared with the characteristics of their wives, the characteristics of non-Hispanic husbands are nearly insignificant...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Glenn D. Deane Abstract In theory, residential mobility is a response to environmental stress only if households do not reduce dissatisfaction through other alternatives, such as housing improvements or repairs. Despite the attention given to stress-reducing alternatives, however, no attempt has...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 81–95.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Kevin E. McHugh; Patricia Gober; Neil Reid Abstract Confusion about the role of residential satisfaction vis-a-vis structural factors in the mobility process stems from the failure to examine the determinants of mobility over varying time frames and housing tenures. Using survey data for a random...
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Demography (1982) 19 (2): 147–159.
Published: 01 May 1982
...R. Stephen Cantrell; Robert L. Clark Abstract Trends in labor force participation rates and the age of retirement are shown to be important determinants of upward mobility. Reductions in age specific participation rates increase the speed of movement through the employment hierarchy. In conjunction...
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 285–300.
Published: 01 August 1978
...Barrett A. Lee Abstract Individual-level models of residential mobility emphasize (a) the stabilizing effects of various social, demographic, and housing characteristics and (b) the important mediating role played by decision-making variables. Data from a sample of skid row residents are analyzed...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 51–73.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Micere Keels; Greg J. Duncan; Stefanie Deluca; Ruby Mendenhall; James Rosenbaum Abstract We examined whether the Gautreaux residential mobility program, which moved poor black volunteer families who were living in inner-city Chicago into more-affluent and integrated neighborhoods, produced long-run...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 757–768.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Kathleen Ford; Victoria Hosegood Abstract This paper examines the effect of parental death on the mobility of 39,163 children aged 0–17 in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, in 2000 and 2001. Parental mortality from all causes prior to and during follow-up increased the risk of a child moving...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 629–648.
Published: 01 November 2004
... from the National Longitudinal Surveys and a model of population renewal that takes into account intergenerational mobility and differential fertility across groups that are defined by poverty status and family structure. Our results suggest that current rates of intergenerational inheritance have...