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Bloomquist, Leonard E. – Rural Sociology, 1990
Analyzes concentration of employment opportunities for different socioeconomic groups in different local labor-market areas (LMAs). Uses regression analysis of 1980 census data. Finds rural LMAs offer fewer opportunities. Gender differences in occupational concentrations relate to industrial composition of labor market. Racial difference is…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Multiple Regression Analysis
Bird, Ronald E. – 1985
This paper describes an initial effort to provide a carefully reasoned, factually based, systematic analysis of teacher pay in comparison to pay in other occupations available to college-educated workers. It also reports on the sensitivity of these salary comparison estimates to differences in certain characteristics of the labor force, such as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Research, Educational Economics