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Is There a Link between the Changing Skills of Labor Used in U.S. Processed Food Trade and Rural Employment?

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Gerald Schluter ()
Chinkook Lee

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Between the 1970s and the 1990s, processed food exports switched from using more skilled labor per unit of output than imports to the opposite. Processed food trade also expanded during this period. More meat and poultry products in processed food trade could explain this switch in skill intensity. Growing meat trade paralleled an urban-to-rural shift in meat processing. While this could have been a win-win situation for rural areas, many of the jobs related to expanded meat trade benefited commuter and migrant workers because late-1990s jobs slaughtering livestock and processing meat did not appeal to domestic rural workers.

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Article provided by Southern Agricultural Economics Association in its journal Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics.

Volume (Year): 36 (2004)
Issue (Month): 3 (December)
Pages: 691-703
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Keywords: Consolidation in the meat industry factor content of trade input-output analysis international meat trade processed food trade rural development rural labor demand skill intensity

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F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
L66 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Food; Beverages; Cosmetics; Tobacco
O18 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade
R15 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Methods

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