The Effects of Rural‐to‐Urban Migration on the Poverty Status of Youth in the 1980s1
作者:
DeeAnn Wenk,
Constance Hardesty,
期刊:
Rural Sociology
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 58,
issue 1
页码: 76-92
ISSN:0036-0112
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1111/j.1549-0831.1993.tb00483.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe effects of rural‐to‐urban migration on the poverty status of migrants have not been adequately explored. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine poverty status before and after a rural‐to‐urban migration, a proportional hazards model of time spent in poverty that begins in rural areas is estimated to determine whether moving to an urban area reduces the time spent in poverty while controlling for individual educational and family characteristics. Results indicate that moving from a rural to an urban area reduces time spent in poverty for white and black women but the effects are not statistically significant for men. Further, to adequately understand the relationship between moving to an urban area and poverty, the analysis examines the effects of moving on the length of time spent not e
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