Low-Skill Employment and the Changing Economy of Rural America

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英文名称：

Low-Skill Employment and the Changing Economy of Rural America

作者：

Robert Gibbs; Lorin Kusmin; John Cromartie

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=44729

关键词：

rural labor markets;  low-skill employment;  job skills;  human capital;  industry;  occupation;  economic development; 

年份：

2005

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

38 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

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.