Migrant status and success: a panel study
1978
Willits, F.K. | Bealer, R.C. | Crider, D.M.
Extract: The relative "success" achieved by migrants and nonmigrants from rural areas was assessed by using 24-year longitudinal data for a panel of 2,081 Pennsylvania men and women. Respondents were first surveyed as high school sophomores in 1947. Migrants were defined as those persons whose 1947 and 1971 residences were 50 or more miles apart. Using this definition, we found migrants to have higher income levels and more occupational prestige than did nonmigrants. They also evaluated themselves as more successful. Migrants did not, however, express significantly more satisfaction with their jobs or communities nor more happiness with their lives.
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