The Economic Base of Recent Population Growth in Nonmetropolitan Settings.

Autor/inn/en	Long, Larry; DeAre, Diana
Institution	Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC. Center for Demographic Studies.
Titel	The Economic Base of Recent Population Growth in Nonmetropolitan Settings.
Quelle	(1982), (98 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Change; Comparative Analysis; Demography; Economic Development; Employment Opportunities; Employment Patterns; Industrialization; Labor Force; Migration Patterns; Natural Resources; Quality of Life; Rural Development; Tables (Data); Urban to Rural Migration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wandel; Demografie; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Industrialisation; Industrialisierung; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Lebensqualität; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Tabelle; Stadtflucht
Abstract	In the late 1970s both jobs and population were growing more rapidly outside metropolitan areas. As a group, nonmetropolitan counties not adjacent to a metropolitan area experienced a faster rate of employment growth than metropolitan areas between 1975-79. Even in rural counties (no urban place of 2,500 or more) not adjacent to a metropolitan area, the number of manufacturing jobs increased more rapidly than in the metropolitan territory during the same time period. The shift of manufacturing employment toward smaller metropolitan areas or nonmetropolitan areas is somewhat more pronounced in the "industrial heartland" than in the South or West. The effect of employment deconcentration on wage rates in nonmetropolitan counties is difficult to ascertain partly because rapid increases in labor force participation (especially of women) in rural counties have brought many inexperienced workers into the workforce--and this tends to depress measures of average wages or earnings. Family incomes, however, increased greatly in rural counties in the 1970s to the point that family income differences between rural counties and some large cities have been virtually eliminated. Appended are a definitive statement concerning size categories for metropolitan areas and six tables containing basic data. (AH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC