Jobs and Earnings in Nonmetro Industry, 1987

Linda M. Ghelfi and T. Alexander Majchrowicz

No 309527, Agricultural Information Bulletins from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) job growth accelerated during 1987, but nonmetro real earnings grew slower than during earlier years of the U.S. economic recovery that began in 1982. Nonmetro jobs grew 2.5 percent during 1987, almost 1 percentage point faster than the average annual rate for 1982-86. Nonmetro real earnings grew 2 percent, nearly half a percentage point slower than in previous recovery years. In both jobs and earnings, nonmetro growth lagged metro, but by a smaller margin than earlier. The nonmetro Northeast had the best growth record. Nationwide, nonmetro goods-producing industries grew faster than their metro counterparts, but metro service-producing Industries outperformed nonmetro service producers.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Financial Economics; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12
Date: 1990-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.309527

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