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- Title
OCCUPATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY AMONG PROFESSIONAL WORKERS.
- Authors
Ladinsky, Jack
- Abstract
Geographic mobility statistics for professional, technical and kindred workers from the 1960 Census one-in-a-thousand sample are broken down by detailed occupations and examined for common structural conditions of work and career that explain variations in mobility rates. Analysis leads to the following conclusions: (1) Professions that require heavy investments in capital equipment and dose cultivation of clienteles have low migration rates; (2) salaried professions with short organizational hierarchies, low ratios of managers to managed, and decentralized work units have high migration rates; (3) salaried professions with unstandardized work conditions, no state licensing, and strong occupational communication networks have high long-distance migration rates; (4) salaried workers in highly Professional occupations move in national and regional rather than local labor markets. Partial correlation analysis reveals that median age, median family income, and rate of expansion of professional occupations are not significant sources of variations in migration rates. Selected professional migration rates are compared to those for selected managerial and sales occupations; the former are found to be consistently higher, suggesting that the image of the organization man as "transient" is exaggerated. The relationship between managerial succession and career mobility is discussed. Evidence is briefly resented which suggests that the conclusions reached here might be generalized to the entire labor force.
- Subjects
EMIGRATION &; immigration; POPULATION geography; CENSUS; STATISTICS; PROFESSIONS; OCCUPATIONS; LABOR
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1967, Vol 32, Issue 2, p253
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2091815