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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"geographic mobility"”.
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Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890
This study will focus on social mobility in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. The question I want to answer is, does the quantitative evidence available support the contention that nineteenth century America was a land in which a man was free to rise as far as his talents could carry …
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Migration in the Cotton South: The Geographic Mobility of Alabama Farmers, 1850-1860.
In 1855, in an address before the Chunnenuggee Horticultural Society, Clement C. Clay described the migration of farmers from the Tennessee Valley region of Alabama. The small planters, Clay observed, "after taking the cream off their lands," were going westward in search of new land. Wealthier …
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Identification of Factors Relating to Perceived Geographic Mobility of Displaced Workers in Illinois
… study was to identify factors that relate to geographic mobility of displaced workers in Illinois. Displaced workers going through Illinois centers funded by the Job Training Partnership Act were studied to determine relationships between perceived mobility and factors such as demographics, …
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The Effect of Frequent Geographic Mobility on The Reading Achievement of Students in a Military Community
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:46:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317330.pdf: 6114392 bytes, checksum: d0d0cfb637c7c23c35bc73234de18772 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Essays on Technological Change and Labor Market Dynamics: Causal Evidence from Remote Work and Automation
… composition, labor market participation, and geographic mobility. The first chapter estimates the causal effects of rising remote work on women’s labor market share. Using a difference-in-differences framework augmented with double machine learning and an instrumental variables strategy, I …
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The immigrant experience in Albuquerque, 1880-1920
… Topics considered include economic and geographic mobility, marriage and family patterns, and degree of assimilation. The economy of Albuquerque was based on three major sources of employment: agriculture, merchandising, and the railroad. Many immigrants were employed as skilled laborers …
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An architecture for a collaborative authoring system
… due to the widespread use of computer networks, geographic mobility of people, and small powerful personal computers. For the past ten years research has been conducted into this use of computing technology from a wide variety of perspectives and for a wide range of uses. This thesis adds to that …
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Variance in teacher perceptions of school misbehavior, their estimation of misbehavior prevalence and burnout
… rating variance was similarly explained by geographic mobility prior to high school, and by occupation and education of mother and father. Descriptive findings were computed for misbehavior prevalence and burnout. Multiple regression analyses revealed numerous significant relationships among …
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To bry or not to bry: the social meanings of Afrikaans rhotic variation in the South Cape
… to explore the relationship between geographical place, local social meanings and linguistic variation. Theoretically, I make use of the concept of indexicality, following Silverstein's (2003) indexical orders and Eckert's (2008) indexical fields. To date, there is no previous study …
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Patterns, predictors and outcomes of patient transfer in public sector chronic primary care services
… jeopardising continuity of care. High levels of geographic mobility in low-and middle-income countries mean that patients may require transfers between primary health care (PHC) facilities. In addition, with decentralisation of chronic care services in many settings there are increasing numbers …
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Population Churn: The Migration Flow Of Florida
… Has the growth been for the best? While geographical mobility is frequently analyzed in terms of in-migration, out-migration, and net migration, this thesis will examine the population churn, the sum of in- and out-migration divided by population size. The simple descriptive questions in …
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A Social History of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900
… prospects of thrifty Irishmen, but occupational mobility strongly favored the second generation, more so than in other locales. Why do both popular and scholarly accounts tend to portray all nineteenth century Irish Americans as either an undifferentiated mass of unskilled proletarians or as …
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Youth in Lebanon: Using collaborative and interdisciplinary communication design methods to improve social integration in post-conflict societies
… – an extreme case of a politically, religiously, geographically, culturally and linguistically segregated post-conflict generation. The research adopts an innovative, interdisciplinary(1.) and collaborative(2.) approach, to explore the contribution of communication design methods towards social …
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Essays on firms in developing countries
… in multiple provinces, two proxies for geographic mobility. The third chapter examines the impact of internal trade barriers on firms' performance and export activities. It is well known that various forms of non-tariff barriers exist among Chinese provinces. However, empirically, it is …