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A Glance at the Age Structure and Labor Force Participation of Rural America [1]
['Us Census Bureau', 'Jennifer Cheeseman Day', 'Donald Hays', 'Adam Smith']
Date: 2022-11-17 12:06:38.821000-05:00
Looking at the percentage distributions by age in rural and urban areas, we see notable differences particularly among people in their prime working ages (16 to 64 years). Rural areas have much older working-age populations.
Generally, an older working-age population points to lower overall labor force participation (i.e., the percentage of the overall population in the civilian labor force), as workers begin to drop out of the labor force past age 50. Rural areas have lower labor force participation overall (59.2 percent compared with 64.2 percent for urban areas). Looking at labor force participation by age groups, we find that that men and women living in rural areas have lower labor force participation than their urban counterparts at similar ages (Figure 2). The difference does not seem to stem from the availability of full-time, year-round employment. Among all workers, proportions of rural male and female workers with full-time, year-round employment are comparable with those of their urban counterparts (with some exceptions among women of childbearing age) (Figure 3).
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