Attracting and Retaining Workers in Rural Communities

Authors

Rebecca J. Vogt, Center for Applied Rural Innovation, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, Panhandle Research and Extension CenterFollow
Randolph L. Cantrell, Nebraska Rural Initiative, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Charlotte Narjes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

5-12-2010

Comments

Published by the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Copyright 2010 Regents of the University of Nebraska.

Abstract

Many rural communities focus their development efforts on job creation. In the non-metropolitan portions of the Northern Great Plains, job creation efforts in the first half of this decade were quite successful. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA, 2005), 167 of the 223 non-metropolitan counties in Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota saw an actual aggregate increase in total jobs (full and part-time) of 28,734, between the years 2001 and 2005.