Migration of the Texas Farm Population.

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CONTRIBUTIONS OF RECENT METRO/NONMETRO MIGRANTS TO THE NONMETRO POPULATION AND LABOR FORCE

Some 6.2 million, or one-eighth, of the 1975 nonmetro population lived in metro areas 5 years earlier. Metro/nonmetro migrants more than replaced the 5.1 million persons moving in the opposite direction, except among young adults, blacks, and the college educated. In their occupation, industry, and income attributes, migrants did not have a negative impact on the Nonmetro population. High proportions were in white-collar occupations and industries, and average income was no less than that of the total nonmetro population. Nor did the non metro population suffer in exchanges with metro areas <un earning capacity of migrants. Remarkable similarity was noted in the incomes of metro/nonmetro migrants and persons moving in the opposite direction

COMMUTING AND MIGRATION STATUS IN NONMETRO AREAS

A fifth of employed nonmetropolitan household heads engaged in intercounty job commuting in 1975 Such commuting was positively associated with income, but not with education Only a sixth of recent migrants to nonmetro communities from metro areas continued work at metro jobs, indicating a general serving of metro economic ties by such migrants The median distance traveled to work by nonmetro household heads was well below that traveled by metro heads Although there are more long-distance commuters among nonmetro residents, there are also many more who travel very short distance

Contributions of Rural Migrants to the Urban Occupational Structure

Rural-urban migrants in the United States do not appear to contribute unduly to the lower status urban occupations. Nationally, their shares in 1967 were about equal to their share of urban population in the professional and managerial occupations, higher among craftsmen and operatives, and lower for clerical and sales people. They were represented proportionally in the service and nonfarm labor categories, and excessively among private household workers. Some differences in occupations of ruralurban migrants were noted for race-sex groups and for the South compared with thc non-South