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Goldscheider, Frances; Goldscheider, Calvin; St. Clair, Patricia; Hodges, James – Social Forces, 1999
The latest phenomenon among life-course transitions of early adulthood is the "return to the nest." Analysis of National Survey of Families and Households data links the increased likelihood of returning home to changes in leaving home: declining age and reasons other than marriage. The reason for leaving that increased returning home…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Relocation, Residential Patterns
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South, Scott J.; Deane, Glenn D. – Social Forces, 1993
In 1979-80, residential mobility was lower among African Americans than non-African Americans after adjusting for differences in home ownership and sociodemographic characteristics. Both African-American and non-African-American mobility were influenced by life-cycle factors, housing characteristics, and metropolitan features, but African-American…
Descriptors: Blacks, Individual Characteristics, Metropolitan Areas, Racial Differences
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Grant, Don Sherman, II; Wallace, Michael – Social Forces, 1994
A pooled, cross-sectional, time-series analysis of state manufacturing growth rates for 1970-85 indicates that manufacturing growth was influenced by workforce quality, population density, and elements of states' political economies, including state fiscal capacity, organizational capacity of labor, social wage policies, and state…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Fiscal Capacity
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South, Scott J.; Crowder, Kyle D.; Trent, Katherine – Social Forces, 1998
Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics show that parental divorce sharply increases probabilities that children will move out of their neighborhoods and will move to poorer neighborhoods. These outcomes are especially pronounced for African Americans and children whose parents were previously homeowners. Remarriage also has…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Divorce, Economic Impact