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Measuring Underemployment in Rural Areas

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  • Lichter, Daniel T.

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By the measures used in this article, nearly a third of the rural labor force is underemployed, whether through being out of a job, or working for low pay, or working too few hours. Yet only about a third of them are counted as unemployed. Besides its direct economic effect, underemployment also exerts an indirect effect, hindering remedial efforts. Federal jobs programs, for example, often base their funding on the unemployment rate, inadvertently directing benefits away from rural areas.

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  • Lichter, Daniel T., 1987. "Measuring Underemployment in Rural Areas," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 3(2), February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:310421
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310421
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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.
    2. Findeis, Jill L. & Chitose, Yoshimi, 1994. "Hired Farm Labor: U.S. Trends and Survey Results for Pennsylvania," AE & RS Research Reports 257732, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.

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