Middle-aged and elderly individuals have played a prominent role in the non-metropolitan turnaround. The data for this study are drawn from the older men cohort of the National Longitudinal Study, and the analysis is focused on a pooled sample of two-year migration intervals extending from 1967 to 1975. Nonmetropolitan-bound migrants do not differ substantially from metropolitan nonmigrants, but differences observed are along life-cycle lines. In contrast, metropolitan to nonmetropolitan migrants differ from nonmetropolitan non migrants on both socioeconomic status and life-cycle attributes.
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