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Education, Employment, and Wages in the Appalachia Region. Final Report (2020). Research Report. RR-3217-CHC
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Baird, Matthew D.; Hunter, Gerald P.; Edenfield, Nathaniel; Broten, Nicholas; Gonzalez, Gabriella C. – RAND Corporation, 2020
The authors of this report aim to understand the health of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and labor market in the Appalachia region -- defined as the intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia -- with a focus on the mining and extraction industry. This report is the third in a three-part series.…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Report No. 2 (2017). Research Report. RR-1863-CHC
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Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Siler-Evans, Kyle; Hunter, Gerald Paul; Broten, Nicholas – RAND Corporation, 2017
This second of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative (API) region, comprising twenty-seven counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Together,…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Report No. 1 (2016). Research Report. RR-1357-CHC
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Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Siler-Evans, Kyle; Hunter, Gerald Paul; Baird, Matthew D. – RAND Corporation, 2016
This first of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing--related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative (API) region. Together, these reports will capture trends over the next four years to (1) inform the…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
Recent Immigrant Settlement in the Nonmetropolitan United States: Evidence from Internal Census Data
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Donato, Katharine M.; Tolbert, Charles M., II; Nucci, Alfred; Kawano, Yukio – Rural Sociology, 2007
In the 1990s, studies have documented widespread growth of immigrants in U.S. communities not known as common destinations in the past. This trend has fueled population growth in some nonmetropolitan areas and offset population decline in other areas. In this paper, we examine the implications of recent foreign born in-migration for rural America.…
Descriptors: Population Growth, Rural Areas, Counties, Immigrants
Rural Pennsylvania in the New Economy: Identifying the Causes of Growth and Developing New Opportunities
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Shields, Martin; Vivanco, Carolina – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2004
Pennsylvania, like the United States, experienced a remarkable economic expansion through the late 1990s. The significant growth and change of this decade, however, did not equally touch all regions and all industries. Traditional sectors continued to decline, while growth in what has been dubbed the "new economy," considered to be the…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Industry, Counties, Rural Areas
The Status of Rural Education in the United States. Bulletin, 1913, No. 8. Whole Number 515
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Monahan, A. C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
In the Federal Census of 1910, 58.5 per cent of the population of the United States from 6 to 20 years of age, both inclusive, are classed as rural, which means that nearly three-fifths of the total American school population live in the open country, or in villages and small towns, under rural conditions. The total rural population of this class…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Enrollment Trends, White Students