Gibbs, Robert; Kusmin, Lorin D. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2005
This study reports trends in rural low-skill employment in the 1990s and their impact on the rural workforce. The share … low-skill employment share, but much less than the decline of the 1980s. Employment shifts from low-skill to skilled … occupations within industries, rather than changes in industry mix, explain virtually all of the decline in the rural low-skill …