Growth and Stability of Rural Economies in the 1980s: Differences Among Counties

David W. Sears, John M. Redman, Lorin D. Kusmin and Molly S. Killian

No 278685, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Nonmetropolitan counties are divided into four economic performance groups, based on the strength of earnings growth over the 1979-88 period and on the stability of that growth. This report describes the typical county in each of the four performance groups, and compares them. Each group is described along a variety of dimensions, including demographic, locational, regional, educational, labor market, economic base, business, government revenue and expenditure, infrastructure, and amenity characteristics.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63
Date: 1992-12
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278685

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