Even though farming accounts for only about 1 percent of the total national workforce, it is at the core of the food and fiber system. The system is one of the largest sectors in the U.S. economy, and is comprised of industries related to farming, including feed, seed, fertilizer, machinery,...

Rural America At A Glance, 2010 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2010 edition focuses on the U.S. rural economy, including employment trends, poverty, and...

After a short historical review, the forest as a working place creating jobs is discussed. Present trends in the forestry workforce in practically all European countries show a continuing sharp decline in the total number of jobs in the forests. When analyzing forest as a working place at local...

The problem of employment in the agricultural sector has been brought up. A triple division of the working population between three main sectors in Poland has been introduced, pointing at changes in employment in the last few years. An analysis of statistical data allowed for observation of a...

This study examines the impact of hospitals on local labor markets in rural and urban counties. We measure the ability of hospitals, particularly in rural communities, to attract non-health related employment and provide higher wage jobs to residents based on their education level. Results find...

The Republic of Serbia is the second state worldwide regarding volume of raspberry production and the third one concerning area of raspberry plantations. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to analyze and predict raspberry production in the Republic of Serbia. The paper also aims to determine...

Északkelet-Magyarországon él a hazai cigányság mintegy fele, azonban már önmagában a létszámok mérése is komoly nehézségekbe ütközik. Tanulmányunkban feltárjuk a roma lakosság számára vonatkozó különböző forrásokat, illetve érzékeltetjük a legfontosabb területi...

A tanulmány arra kíván rámutatni, hogy a vidékfejlesztési elképzelésekben, az „élhető vidék†eléréséhez, a vidékfejlesztési projektek tervezésénél a távlati célokban szerepet játszhat a vadgazdálkodás és vadászturizmus, ami a vidékfejlesztés több céljához...

In Hungarian rural areas the low level of population density and income, the unfavourable age structure and the other economic conditions signifi - cantly differ from urban areas; and the differences among micro-regions are also increasing, which results in different standards of living and...

Although the negative externalities of large-scale hog production have been well studied, econometric estimates of its potentially positive labor markets effects are lacking.We use the geographic shifts in large-scale hog production between 1992 and 2007 to estimate such production’s...