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Peer reviewedSeyfrit, Carole L. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Questions one of the assumed benefits of rapid growth in rural areas--the retention of rural youths through finding employment in their home communities. Finds no relationship between migration intentions of 970 high school seniors in rural Utah counties and rapid growth in local energy-related extractive employment. (LFL)
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Economic Development, Employment Opportunities, Energy Occupations
Peer reviewedFarris, M. Cynthia; And Others – Research in Rural Education, 1985
Examines how well structural and social psychological variables explain occupational aspirations of 447 rural, low-income southern youth during preadolescence, adolescence, and young adulthood (contacts were made in 1969, 1975, and 1979). Finds results vary from Ginsburg's theory of three stages with occupational expectations declining rapidly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Career Choice, Economically Disadvantaged
