Employment
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Employment Rates Higher Among Rural Mothers Than Urban Mothers As men's jobs in traditional rural industries, such as agriculture, natural resource extraction, and manufacturing disappear due to restructuring of rural labor markets, the survival of the family increasingly depends on women's waged labor. Rural mothers… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Employment, Family, Rural, Urban, Women |
| Low Wages Prevalent In Direct Care and Child Care Workforce The large-scale movement of women into the paid labor market has brought sweeping change into family life and also in who cares for the elderly and children. This brief studies workers in two low wage, predominantly female care-giving occupations plagued with high… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Employment, Women |
| Rural Workers Would Benefit More Than Urban Workers from an Increase in the Federal Minimum Wage While members of the U.S. Senate considered the first increase in minimum wage in a decade, the Carsey Institute released findings of a study showing that it would benefit rural, low-wage workers every bit as much, if not more, than workers in big cities. … |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Rural, Urban, Wages |
| The State of Working New Hampshire 2006 While New Hampshire has the highest labor force participation (71 percent) and the second-lowest unemployment and underemployment rates in New England, recent trends in employment and wages point to growing disparities in the state, this issue brief finds. The brief… |
New Hampshire | Employment, New Hampshire, Wages |
| The State of Working Vermont 2006 Vermont enjoys higher-than-average workforce participation rates and the lowest unemployment in New England, but the state's wage levels remain well below regional standards and the workforce is aging, finds this issue brief prepared by the Carsey Institute in… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, New England, Seniors, Wages |
| Low-Skill Workers in Rural America Face Permanent Job Loss Global economic competition and other factors have cost rural America 1.5 million jobs in the past six years. This brief analyzes job displacement figures from around the country between 1997 and 2003. The loss of rural jobs was particularly large in the… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, Low Income, Rural |
