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Racial And Ethnic Differences In Rural And Urban Migration, Lisa L. Knapp
Racial And Ethnic Differences In Rural And Urban Migration, Lisa L. Knapp
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Most past research on migration has focused on young adults or recent retirees since these are the two groups most likely to migrate. Very little research has looked at the factors that affect the migration of people in the middle stages of life. The purpose of this research is to identify those factors, and determine if there are differences between whites, blacks, and Hispanics.
The data utilized for this research were from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 79, a study funded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that has been ongoing since 1979. Migration was defined as the movement …