Nonmetro Youth in the Labor Force

Sigurd R. Nilsen

No 333752, Rural Development Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Both metro and nonmetro areas face severe youth employment problems. Twenty-five percent of the total U.S. labor force is comprised of youth aged 16-24; however, youth account for 50 percent of the total number of persons unemployed. Unemployment rates for metro and nonmetro youth are equal; however, a lower proportion of nonmetro youth are in the labor force. This means a lower proportion of nonmetro youth are employed. Youth employment is concentrated in clerical and service occupations. Nonmetro female youth are less likely to be employed as clerical workers when compared with metro females. However, a higher proportion of nonmetro females are classified as operative workers.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 1981-03
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/333752/files/RDRR27.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:ersrdr:333752

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.333752

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Rural Development Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().