Changing Linkages Between Work and Poverty in Rural America1
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Rural Sociology
- Vol. 59 (3) , 395-415
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00539.x
Abstract
The changing relationship between work and poverty in non‐metropolitan (nonmetro) America is documented using data from the 1980 and 1990 March supplements of the Current Population Survey. Specifically, this paper assesses changing differentials in the proportion of poor people who are working; documents the rapid rise in poverty among nonmetro and metropolitan (metro) workers during the 1979—1989 period, especially among young adults and females; and provides evidence of growing inequality between metro and nonmetro workers, a pattern that cannot be explained by differences in work attachment, human capital, or job characteristics. The results imply that poverty is a persistent if not increasingly harsh reality for workers in rural America.Keywords
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