Thursday, December 18, 2008
[IWS] Pew: AMERICAN MOBILITY: WHO MOVES? WHO STAYS PUT? WHERE'S HOME? [17 December 2008]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Pew Research Center
American Mobility
Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where's Home? [17 December 2008]
http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/Movers-and-Stayers.pdf
[full-text, 44 pages]
Table of Contents
Executive Summary……………………………………….………………..………………… 1
Overview …..…………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………………… 5
Characteristics of Movers and Stayers ………….………………………………………….. 6
Why Do Movers Move and Stayers Stay?.....……………………………………...………… 13
Multiple Movers, Recent Movers, Likely Movers……….…………….…………………… 21
The Many Definitions of Home………………………….………………………………….. 24
Survey Topline ……………………………………………….……………..……………….. 34
See also
INTERACTIVE MAPS
http://pewsocialtrends.org/maps/migration/
Press Release
American Mobility: Movers, Stayers, Places and Reasons
by D'Vera Cohn and Rich Morin, Pew Research Center
December 17, 2008
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1058/american-mobility-moversstayers-places-and-reasons
As a nation, the United States is often portrayed as restless and rootless. Census data, though, indicate that Americans are settling down. Only 13% of Americans changed residences between 2006 and 2007, the smallest share since the government began tracking this trend in the late 1940s.
A new Pew Social & Demographic Trends survey finds that most Americans have moved to a new community at least once in their lives, although a notable number -- nearly four-in-ten -- have never left the place in which they were born. Asked why they live where they do, movers most often cite the pull of economic opportunity. Stayers most often cite the tug of family and connections.
AND MUCH MORE....
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Pew Research Center
American Mobility
Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where's Home? [17 December 2008]
http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/Movers-and-Stayers.pdf
[full-text, 44 pages]
Table of Contents
Executive Summary……………………………………….………………..………………… 1
Overview …..…………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………………… 5
Characteristics of Movers and Stayers ………….………………………………………….. 6
Why Do Movers Move and Stayers Stay?.....……………………………………...………… 13
Multiple Movers, Recent Movers, Likely Movers……….…………….…………………… 21
The Many Definitions of Home………………………….………………………………….. 24
Survey Topline ……………………………………………….……………..……………….. 34
See also
INTERACTIVE MAPS
http://pewsocialtrends.org/maps/migration/
Press Release
American Mobility: Movers, Stayers, Places and Reasons
by D'Vera Cohn and Rich Morin, Pew Research Center
December 17, 2008
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1058/american-mobility-moversstayers-places-and-reasons
As a nation, the United States is often portrayed as restless and rootless. Census data, though, indicate that Americans are settling down. Only 13% of Americans changed residences between 2006 and 2007, the smallest share since the government began tracking this trend in the late 1940s.
A new Pew Social & Demographic Trends survey finds that most Americans have moved to a new community at least once in their lives, although a notable number -- nearly four-in-ten -- have never left the place in which they were born. Asked why they live where they do, movers most often cite the pull of economic opportunity. Stayers most often cite the tug of family and connections.
AND MUCH MORE....
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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