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Distribution of Employment Growth in 10 Ozark Counties: A Case Study

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  • Oliveira, Victor J.
  • Kuehn, John A.

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Service industries, some manufacturing, and a concentration of retirees can provide a strong economic base for a rural area. Rapid growth of service businesses, especially wholesale and retail firms and other businesses related to tourism and recreation, attracted job-seekers to a 10-county area in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri during 1978-84. Newcomers were better educated and held higher paying jobs than long-term residents. The recreation businesses provided increased job opportunities for youths but tended to pay low wages and be seasonal, based on tourism patterns. Manufacturing industries provided about a fourth of the jobs in the area, many of them higher paying than jobs in the service sector. The area also benefited from the stable incomes and buying patterns of retirees who made up 33 percent of the adult residents.

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  • Oliveira, Victor J. & Kuehn, John A., 1987. "Distribution of Employment Growth in 10 Ozark Counties: A Case Study," Rural Development Research Reports 334310, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ersrdr:334310
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.334310
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