Migration and city-suburb status differences.

Abstract

are generally low in status. This paper investigates the status character of in-migration to U.S. central cities and suburban rings in the 1960s by analyzing data for 43 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) with one dominant central city and a total SMSA population in 1970 greater than 500,000. Our analysis differs from previous investigations of the same question (Goldstein and Mayer, 1965; Kirschenbaum, 1972; Taeuber and Taeuber, 1964) by focusing on a large number of individual metropolitan areas.