Upgrading Workers' Skills Not Sufficient to Jump-Start Rural Economy

Ruy A. Teixeira and Lawrence Mishel

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1991, vol. 07, issue 3

Abstract: Enhanced job skills benefit rural individuals, but a high-quality rural labor force by itself will not guarantee rural development. Data from the past two decades show a decreasing rate of growth in demand by employers for quantifiable skills (like level of education). Although policymakers predict an increasingly skilled and service-oriented workforce in the 1990's, a rural development strategy based solely on upgrading workforce skills may still miss the point.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310966

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