A canonical technique is explored that permits assessment to which origin positions determine destination positions within occupational structures. This procedure requires expressing the occupational positions as binary variables, then obtaining canonical correlations among the sets of binary variables. The association between origin and…

Based on the 1973 and 1977 Annual Housing Surveys of the United States, about 800,000 household heads were relocated annually by their employers. Income and education levels associated with relocated heads indicated that job transfers are most likely to occur among the higher socioeconomic status occupations but nonetheless appear to be frequent…

Studies the use of relocation as a method for improving management performance. Describes the impact of manufacturing firms located in Mexico and the impact of relocations, such as the expected attributes of the new location and the use of support services. Discusses implications for employment counselors. (RJM)

Compared internationally mobile adolescents with peers who lived in United States throughout their lives (total n=1,076). Findings support impression that U.S. internationally mobile adolescents have more interest in travel and learning languages and that they rate themselves more culturally accepting and more oriented to international lifestyle…

The article describes the various ways couples cope when wives are offered job transfers. (Author/BP)

This paper proposes to offer guidance and a decision tree checklist to those professional, federal, state, municipal, charitable and educational institutional employees who are not privy to relocation expense packages and are thereby left to their own devices to accomplish the move. (Author)

Since occupational stability factors are integral to career decision-making processes for students, a study was made to seek information pertaining to occupational stability factors for technicians. Two assumptions made in the study were that inadequate counseling, due to insufficient knowledge about technical education, and an unrealistic…

The primary objective of this project was to focus on rural labor surplus areas in southeastern Iowa, relocating unemployed residents in industrial jobs on Iowa's Mississippi border, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City. The group was predominantly white and poorly educated. Small rural employment offices communicated job openings and worker qualifications…

In this paper the authors analyze the interactive dimensions of geographic and career mobility while at the same time examining the associated implications of these interactions for the age selectivity of migration. (Author/SSH)

Difference in transfer policy suggests need for careful counseling of students and job applicants so they will know what company attitudes are, prior to making employment plans. (CJ)

Discusses the impact of relocating on corporate employees and their families and indicates the need for corporate services and social work intervention in this area. The author explores some of the psychosocial effects of relocating that have received little attention. (Author/BEF)

There are many ways in which a company can ease a foreign executive's transition from a foreign assignment to a United States headquarters job. Assistance in housing, accommodations, compensation, taxes, and home office atmosphere are just a few areas in which the company can help. (Author)

To determine the extent to which differences in occupational and geographic mobility are a result of the learning environment in which a certified electronic technician was trained, and to disclose the differences resulting from the occupation itself, the entire population of over 1,500 certified engineering technicians in New York, New Jersey,…