Telecommunications Spur North Dakota's Rural Economy

F. Leistritz

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1992, vol. 08, issue 2

Abstract: In the past few years several telecommunications-based firms expanded to rural areas, banging employment opportunities and boosting rural economies. But what kinds of jobs do they actually offer? In North Dakota, new telecommunications jobs seem to offer employee wages and fringe benefits comparable with those of new manufacturing jobs.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310977

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