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Maybe Americans Aren’t Moving Because They Don’t Need To (Rise of the City Economy)

Nov 6, 2012

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Atlantic Cities: Maybe Americans Aren't Moving Because They Don't Need To Compared to Europe and other OECD countries, the United States has long been a highly mobile population. (I seem to recall Australia was high as well.) People used to migrate for better economic opportunities, partly because there were such significant differences between locations in…

Reverse brain drain: Economic shifts lure migrants home

Oct 22, 2012

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in Business, Demography, Economic Development, Immigration, International Affairs, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Christian Science Monitor: Reverse brain drain: Economic shifts lure migrants home The tide of brain drain – from developing countries to industrialized nations – has turned. Human capital is returning home to Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, while some European professionals squeezed by the recession, turn toward developing countries for advancement. "Brain drain"…

Africa’s Urbanizing, But Not How You Think

Oct 2, 2012

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in Africa, Demography, Sociology, Trends: Social

Atlantic Cities: Africa's Urbanizing, But Not How You Think … Deborah Potts, a demographer from Kings College London who studies urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa, says that more people are moving from urban areas to rural ones in countries like Ivory Coast, Mali, Zambia and Central African Republic. She says these "counter-movements" are the result of…

Why are Americans moving less? Perhaps they don’t need to

May 21, 2012

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in Business, Demography, Immigration, Sociology

Washington Post: Why are Americans moving less? Perhaps they don’t need to. … But a recent paper (pdf) from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests that none of these theories match the data. (For instance, the decline in migration is most pronounced among the young, not the old.) Instead, argue Greg Kaplan and Sam…

Segregation: The dream is getting closer

Feb 10, 2012

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in Demography, Race, Trends: Social

Economist: Segregation: The dream is getting closer A report shows that America’s cities are steadily becoming more integrated “ALL-WHITE neighbourhoods are effectively extinct,” according to “The End of the Segregated Century”, a recent report by the Manhattan Institute, a New York think-tank. Only 0.5% of America’s 70,000 neighbourhoods are now all-white. In fact, American cities…

Black flight

Apr 4, 2011

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in Demography, Race, Trends: Social

Economist: Black flight Now it is the turn of America’s blacks to leave for the suburbs. IN THE 1990s black Americans began returning in significant numbers to the South. This marked a reversal of the Great Migration, in which their parents and grandparents fled Jim Crow racism in the 1920s and 1930s for jobs in…

Census estimates show more US blacks moving South

Feb 17, 2011

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in Demography, Race, Sociology

Dallas News: Census estimates show more US blacks moving South WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's blacks are leaving big cities in the Northeast and Midwest at the highest levels in decades, returning to fast-growing states in the once-segregated South in search of better job opportunities and quality of life. The Southern U.S. region — primarily…

Europe’s conquering heroes? Likely farmers: study

Jan 21, 2010

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in Demography, History, Science

Reuters: Europe's conquering heroes? Likely farmers: study WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The conquerors who spread their seed across Europe in ancient times were prosperous farmers who imported their skills from the Middle East, researchers reported on Tuesday. A study of the Y chromosome — passed down with very little change from father to son — suggests…

Census estimates point to end of Sun Belt’s population growth

Dec 23, 2008

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in Demography, Trends: Social

USA Today: Census estimates point to end of Sun Belt's population growth The housing collapse and economic crisis are dramatically transforming the population and political landscape of the nation by ending the Sun Belt boom that dominated growth for a generation, according to Census Bureau estimates released Monday. For the first time since the early…

Demographic landscape shifts across United States

Aug 8, 2008

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in Demography, Politics, Race, Trends: Social

USA Today: Demographic landscape shifts across United States White populations have declined in more than half of the USA's counties since 2000, helping fuel a rise in the number of communities where minorities are now the majority, an analysis of 2007 Census estimates released today shows. The data reflect how immigration, a population boom among…

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