of residence, and provides a better understanding of the process of rural labor adjustments in a country in transition … by other determinants affecting working conditions and residence. A considerable degree of immobility in terms of … migration and commuting has been revealed. As a result, a rapid urbanisation process is unlikely to happen in the near future …

Growth in the meat packing and processing industry in the Midwestern United States has generated a significant amount … social and economic outcomes in non-metropolitan counties of twelve Midwestern states. The empirical specification uses a … difference-in-differences specification to measure the effect of industry growth on local economic growth, government …

This paper examines the causes of spatial inequalities in economic development across rural America. A theoretical … in the United States. Preliminary results suggest that households are willing to trade better amenities for lower income …, and firms take advantage of this tradeoff by locating in areas with better climate and more recreational opportunities. In …

, county, or local economies. The National Environmental Policy Act requires economic analysis in preparing environmental … hybrid model built for Owyhee County and an IMPLAN model of Owyhee County. Alternative grazing policy scenarios analyzed in …

impact of such market-oriented reform on income and welfare distributions. This paper examines the changes in income and … welfare distributions in urban China from 1981 to 1998 and discusses implications for China’'s food consumption patterns and … inequality in urban China has increased significantly since 1981, welfare comparisons based on generalized Lorenz curves suggest …

in Vermont. To satisfy this goal, the study examines factors that influence location decisions as well as identifying … what obstacles business owners have experienced. The idea for this project originated in response to the troubled economic … interview survey with Vermont small business owners. The data was analyzed in order to discover incentives and obstacles that …

.Rural Employment Growth in the "New Economy:" A Test of the Spatial Division of Labor Hypothesis Timothy Wojan, University of Kentucky …

reduction in agricultural regions. Based on empirical data, the paper presents the assessment of the "diversification effects … industrial regions. It is shown that high rates of employment in the agriculture weaken the position of the region on the labor … rural unemployment. In rural regions the development of non-agricultural employment produces positive effects on the …

This paper explores the key factors that cause changes in the economic wellbeing of rural households in Kenya. We … evidence of (low) income persistence for the poor and those in the low agricultural potential areas that lack higher education … and allow convergence of incomes towards their average. This indicates the potential role of education in not only …

In this paper we develop a spatial panel simultaneous-equations model of business growth, migration behavior, local … public services and median household income in a partial lag-adjustment growth-equilibrium framework and utilizing a one …” literature and it improved previous models in the growth-equilibrium tradition by: (1) explicitly modeling local government and …