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Rural Veterans at a Glance
Farrigan, Tracey; Cromartie, John - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2013
Nearly 4 million veterans reside in rural (nonmetropolitan) America. They are a rapidly aging and increasingly diverse group of men and women who still comprise over 10 percent of rural adults despite consistently declining numbers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915585
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Food Insecurity Among Households With Working-Age Adults With Disabilities
Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Nord, Mark - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2013
-limiting disability than among other households. To provide more detail on the prevalence of food insecurity by a range of types of … groups of households that include adults with disabilities: (1) households with a working-age adult with a disability that … prevented work (not in labor force-disabled); and (2) those with a working-age adult with a specified disability (hearing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882111
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A Two-Constraint AIDS Model of Recreation Demand and the Value of Leisure Time
Larson, Douglas M.; Shaikh, Sabina L.; Loomis, John B. - Western Agricultural Economics Association - WAEA - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804764
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MOVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE RECIPIENTS INTO THE LABOR FORCE, 1996-2000
Hanson, Kenneth; Hamrick, Karen S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2004
Moving recipients of public assistance into jobs is a goal of the current system for providing public assistance to low-income households. Using scenario analysis with a computable general equilibrium model, ERS researchers examined some of the labor market impacts of the "welfare-to work"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806397
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How Much Would Increasing the Minimum Wage Affect Food Prices?
Lee, Chinkook; Schluter, Gerald E.; O'Roark, Brian - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2000
Will increasing the minimum wage increase food prices as well? This study shows that a simulated $0.50 increase in the minimum wage, if entirely passed on to consumers, would have increased food prices by less than 1 percent for most of the foods at foodstores and by 1 percent at eating and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806527
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Rural and Urban Manufacturing Workers: Similar Problems, Similar Challenges: Results of the ERS Rural Manufacturing Survey
Teixeira, Ruy - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1998
Low skill levels among rural workers put rural manufacturing at a competitive disadvantage, according to the "skills shortage" theory. Data from the ERS Rural Manufacturing Survey, conducted in 1996, suggest that is not happening. Skill requirements are rising, but manufacturers who reported...
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Toll on Agriculture from HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Shapouri, Shahla; Rosen, Stacey L. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806564
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POVERTY, POLICY, AND THE MACROECONOMY
LeBlanc, Michael - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2001
This report is an empirical inquiry into how poverty is changed by the macroeconomy. The analysis suggests low real wage rates and not the unemployment rate are the most important determinant of poverty in the long run. Changes in output and unemployment primarily affect cyclical or shortun...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005807624
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Area Variations in the Wages of Agricultural Labor in the United States
Maitland, Sheriden T.; Fischer, Dorothy Ann - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1958
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Nonresponse Bias Analysis of Body Mass Index Data in the Eating and Health Module
Hamrick, Karen S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012
The ERS Eating and Health Module, a supplement to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), included questions on height and weight so that respondents’ Body Mass Index (BMI—a measure of body fat based on height and weight) could be calculated and analyzed with ATUS time-use data in obesity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070626