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Rural Workers at a Disadvantage in Job Opportunities

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  • McGranahan, David A.

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Population sparsity and small community size make rural areas more suited to production jobs than to management or research jobs. The greater vulnerability of production jobs to business cycles, foreign competition, and technological displacement places rural workers at a longrun disadvantage. The rural disadvantage is due more to the types of jobs available in rural areas than to the low education levels of rural workers. Current low earnings for rural workers with more than a high school education appear to be inducing many of them to move to the city.

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  • McGranahan, David A., 1988. "Rural Workers at a Disadvantage in Job Opportunities," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 4(3), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:310564
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310564
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    1. Agriculture and Rural Economy Division, 1991. "Education and Rural Economic Development: Strategies for the 1990's," Staff Reports 278602, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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