Author: Robert Gibbs
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study reports trends in rural low-skill employment in the 1990s and their impact on the rural workforce. The share of rural jobs classified as low-skill fell by 2.2 percentage points between 1990 and 2000, twice the decline of the urban low-skill employment share, but much less than the decline of the 1980s. Employment shifts from low-skill to skilled occupations within industries, rather than changes in industry mix, explain virtually all of the decline in the rural low-skill employment share. The share decline was particularly large for rural Black women, many of whom moved out of low-skill blue-collar work into service occupations, while the share of rural Hispanics who held low-skill jobs increased.
Author: Amy Glasmeier
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 8
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Global economic competition and other factors have cost rural America 1.5 million jobs in the past six years. This brief analyzes job displacement figures from around the country between 1997 and 2003. The loss of rural jobs was particularly large in the manufacturing sector, and the rate of loss was higher in the rural Northeast than in the rest of rural America. The key causes fueling the trend have been the push for cost savings through automation and cheaper labor overseas. (Contains 6 figures and 2 endnotes.).
Author: Kristin E. Smith
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0271048611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Philip L. Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-04-28
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0300156006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. This book looks at what these statistics mean for farmers, labourers, and rural America.
Author: Amy Glasmeier
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This policy brief reviews data on job displacement nationally and in rural communities, with a focus on regions of the country where job losses due to dsplacement are significant and the rate of displacement has been increasing. The findings shed light on the distinct experience of rural America and have clear implcations for public policy that impacts workers, families and communities." --[P. 1]
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 643
ISBN-13: 0309444454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration finds that the long-term impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and that any negative impacts are most likely to be found for prior immigrants or native-born high school dropouts. First-generation immigrants are more costly to governments than are the native-born, but the second generation are among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S. This report concludes that immigration has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth in the U.S. More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans. It comes as little surprise, then, that many U.S. residents view immigration as a major policy issue facing the nation. Not only does immigration affect the environment in which everyone lives, learns, and works, but it also interacts with nearly every policy area of concern, from jobs and the economy, education, and health care, to federal, state, and local government budgets. The changing patterns of immigration and the evolving consequences for American society, institutions, and the economy continue to fuel public policy debate that plays out at the national, state, and local levels. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration assesses the impact of dynamic immigration processes on economic and fiscal outcomes for the United States, a major destination of world population movements. This report will be a fundamental resource for policy makers and law makers at the federal, state, and local levels but extends to the general public, nongovernmental organizations, the business community, educational institutions, and the research community.
Author: Robert Martin Gibbs
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1997-12-31
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenging the notion that rural education and job training are inferior to that offered in urban areas, social scientists describe improved means to measure rural skills than those used previously; offer information regarding the structures, strengths, and weaknesses of the current rural labor market; and suggest means of professional improvement from traditional schooling through adult education. Many of the contributors are from the Economic Research Service based in Washington, D.C. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.