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Job Training Lags for Rural Workers

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  • Swaim, Paul L.

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Post-school training is an important component of the rural workforce skill development system, but, in 1991, just 40 percent of the nonmetro workforce had received training on their current jobs. Less educated, minority, and southern rural workers were particularly unlikely to he enhancing their skills. Between 1983 and 1991, the training rate for nonmetro workers rose modestly, but fell behind the more rapidly rising metro training rate, suggesting that fewer rural firms had adopted the high-skill production strategies widely believed to be of increasing importance for competitive success. Lower rural training reflects both the specialization of rural firms in more routine products and technologies and the cost disadvantages of rural firms and communities as suppliers of job training.

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  • Swaim, Paul L., 1995. "Job Training Lags for Rural Workers," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 10(3), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:311077
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.311077
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    1. Maietta, Ornella Wanda & De Devitiis, Biagia & Destefanis, Sergio & Suppa, Domenico, 2019. "Human capital and rural development policy: evidence from European FADN regions," Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), vol. 8(3), December.
    2. Gary Paul Green & Valeria Galetto, 2005. "Employer Participation in Workforce Development Networks," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 19(3), pages 225-231, August.
    3. Biagia De Devitiis & Ornella Wanda Maietta, 2015. "Shadow Prices of Human Capital in Agriculture. Evidence from European FADN Regions," CSEF Working Papers 415, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.

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