Distribution of Employment Growth in 10 Ozark Communities. A Case Study.

Autor/inn/en	Oliveira, Victor J.; Kuehn, John A.
Institution	Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC.
Titel	Distribution of Employment Growth in 10 Ozark Communities. A Case Study.
Quelle	(1987), (44 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Economic Factors; Educational Attainment; Employed Women; Employers; Employment Opportunities; Government Role; Labor Force; Local Norms; Manufacturing Industry; Older Adults; Recreation; Retirement; Rural Areas; Rural Development; Rural Economics; Rural Population; Small Businesses; Tourism; Trend Analysis; Youth Employment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ökonomischer Faktor; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Fertigungswirtschaft; Produzierendes Gewerbe; Älterer Erwachsener; Re-creation; Erholung; Pensionierung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Landbevölkerung; Kleingewerbe; Tourismus; Trendanalyse; Youth work; Jugendarbeit
Abstract	Service industries, some manufacturing, and a concentration of retirees can provide a strong economic base in 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 income and buying patterns of retirees who made up 33% of the area's adult residents. Government played a minor role in the area's economic expansion. Economic expansion in the area was dominated by wholesale and retail trade, services and tourism-related businesses. Twenty-eight percent of the area's establishments opened for business after 1970; another 23% expanded since 1978. Service-sector industries accounted for 85% of the new and 75% of the expanding businesses. (AA)
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