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The Rural Labor Market and Some Manpower Problems: The State of Maine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Will Richard
Will Richard*
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State Employment & Training Council, Augusta, Maine
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In this paper, I discuss some of the more current problems of manpower planning for and in rural areas. Critical issues are seen as:

  1. a. Primary versus secondary labor market jobs,

  2. b. Poor statistical information with too much borrowing from urban oriented economic indicators such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims.

  3. c. The role of government in terms of fostering economic development through public service employment and the coordination and delivery of employment and training programs.

  4. d. Reverse migration and the role of public service employment, and

  5. e. Public sector versus private sector employment in rural areas.

Type
Rural Social Institutions
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , October 1978 , pp. 119 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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