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Title: Underemployment in Appalachia and the Rest of the United States, 1996-2004

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Conventional unemployment rates provide an incomplete measure of local labor marketconditions, especially in poor rural regions. Unemployment, for example, does notinclude involuntary part-time workers; nor does it include discouraged workers who stopseeking work because they cannot find jobs. To get a more complete picture of labormarkets in Appalachia, this data brief contains estimates of underemployment inAppalachia by state and by demographic group for each year from 1996 to 2004. Theseestimates are derived from the Current Population Survey. Although Appalachia per se isnot identified in the CPS (and DWS), we construct a CPS sub-sample that approximatesthe Appalachian region of each state using the metropolitan geographic identifiers thatare available

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Authors: Price, Mark; Wial, Howard

Publisher: Appalachian Regional Commission

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States