Don Bradley
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1998
Areas of Interest: Migration, Economic Sociology, Religion
Office: Brewster A-412
Tel: 252.328.4838
E-mail: bradleyd@ecu.edu

Curriculum Vita

Research

Selected Publications and Papers
2008 Bradley, Don E. and Charles F. Longino, Jr. “Geographic Mobility and Aging in Place.” In International Handbook of the Demography of Aging. Edited by Peter Uhlenberg. Invited

Longino, Charles F. and Don E. Bradley. “A First Look at Retirement Migration Trends through 2000.”  The Gerontologist, in press.

Bradley, Don E. “A Second Look at Self-Employment and the Earnings of Immigrants.” International Migration Review, in press.

Bradley, Don E. and James Roberts. “Self-Employment and Job Satisfaction: Investigating the Role of Self-Efficacy, Depression, and Seniority.” Journal of Small Business Management, in press.

Longino, Charles F., Jr. and Don E. Bradley. “A Demographic Profile of Productive Older Adults.” Lenard W. Kaye (Ed.) Perspectives on Productive Aging: Social Work with the New Aged. NASW Press, forthcoming.

Bradley, Don E. and Charles F. Longino Jr. 2001.“How Older People Think About Images of Aging in Advertising and the Media.” Generations, 25(3):17-21.

Bradley, Don E. 1995. “Religious Involvement and Social Resources: Evidence from the Data Set ‘Americans’ Changing Lives.’” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34(2): 259-267.

Current Projects:
A portion of my current research focuses on migration among older adults. I am currently collaborating with Chuck Longino on two projects. First, using individual-level data from the 2000 Census we are documenting patterns and trends associated with “retirement migration.” Second, we have submitted a grant requesting funding from the National Institutes of Health in order to examine the causes of retirement mobility using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study.

A second stream in my ongoing research examines self-employment and job satisfaction. Building on earlier work, current research now underway employs the British Household Panel Survey in order to address a range of questions, unanswered by previous cross-sectional studies. For example, does self-employment generate high levels of job satisfaction, or are persons who tend to evaluate their jobs positively especially likely to become self-employed? Additionally, does the association between job satisfaction and self-employment depend on tenure? There are no existing studies which examine the job satisfaction growth curve across years of self-employment.