S296: Rural Labor Markets: Workers, Firms and Communities in Transition

(Multistate Research Project)

Status: Inactive/Terminating

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[02/05/2001] [02/11/2002]

Date of Annual Report: 02/05/2001

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 11/18/2001 - 11/18/2001
Period the Report Covers: 01/01/2001 - 12/01/2001

Participants

F. Carson Mencken, WV, Chair/Acting Secretary;
Richard Goe, KS;
David Freshwater, KY;
Linda Lobao, OH;
Cynthia Anderson, IA;
Mark Henry. SC;
Robert Gibbs, USDA-ERS, Washington, DC;
Janet Bokemeier, MI

Brief Summary of Minutes

There were no new members to be confirmed.

We discussed state reports. All present presented what research objectives they had been working on the previous year. Mencken reported for states that had sent him copies in advance (NC, PR).

We elected officials for next year. Cynthia Anderson will serve as Chair for 2002, Tom Hirschl was elected (in absentia) as Vice-Chair, and Robert Gibbs agreed to serve as Secretary.

We discussed technical issues related to the project. Jan Bokemeier reminded us that we need to have a S-296 website. Cynthia Anderson has agreed to pursue this for year 2002. We agreed to meet in conjunction with the RSAI meetings again next year, which will be held in Puerto Rico.

Charlie Tolbert and Davis McGranahan report (through Mencken) that they have agreed to develop a commuting zone or labor market area geography with 2000 journey-to-work data (once it is available next year). In the intervening period, they are going to review the procedures used in past delineations and seek advice from GIS and other experts about possible new methodologies that might be employed. They are unlikely to develop a PUMS file with the 2000 geography. They are committed instead to attaching the geography to long-form data housed at the Census Bureau (and potentially at its regional data centers). These forms will provide many more records, much more detailed information, and avoid the need for arbitrary population thresholds such as the 100,000-person criterion used for PUMS-D (1980) and PUMS-L (1990).

Michael Schulman reports (through Mencken) that the S-259 book is currently in the hands of two reviewers. The editor at Ohio University Press is very excited about the volume, although she is a little concerned about the eventual length of the volume. The major delay in getting a copy to the reviewers was due to word processing and formatting. We are still expecting a 2002 publication date.

Linda Labao reminded the group that the 2003 RSS meetings will be in Montreal, jointly with the agricultural economics meetings. She would like to see a joint panel on spatial inequality at these meetings (and potentially others such as regional or environmental). Please forward to Linda any ideas on this topic.

We explored the possibility of having a spring meeting at the Southern Sociological Society meetings in Baltimore. After discussion we decided against a formal meeting, but encourage S-296 people who may be attending that they meet informally to share and discuss their progress.

The remainder of the meeting was a discussion of items from the floor. One issue that we discussed concerned the need for commonality among the different state projects. Regional projects must have a similar focus, such as a common model estimated across all states. One way to resolve this issue is to pick one of the objectives from the original proposal and have all states be prepared to report on it at next year?s annual meeting. Since many of the project members are working on Objective 3, we decided that this would be an appropriate objective to focus on. However, not all project members are in southern states. Therefore, we are asking project members to examine and report on any analysis of spatial mismatch in their state at next year?s meeting. Robert Gibbs has agreed to explore the possibility of getting a couple of sessions on this topic at the RSAI meetings in Puerto Rico. We also discussed ways to better share and integrate research projects. One idea is to use the website to create an S-296 Working Paper series. A spatial seminar is still a possibility. Those interested in exploring or purchasing SpaceState (currently $400.00) should go to: http://www.spacestat.com/.

Accomplishments

(none reported)

Publications

Anderson, C., M. Schulman, and P. Wood, ?Globalization and Uncertainty: The Restructuring of Southern Textiles.? Social Problems 48: 6, pp 479-499. 2001. Anderson, C. and M. Bell. Forthcoming. ?The Devil of Social Capital: A Dilemma of American Rural Sociology.? In Country Visions, P. Cloke (ed.), Essex: Pearson Education. Barkley, D., Y. Kim, and M. Henry. Do Manufacturing Plants Cluster Across Rural Areas? Evidence from a Probabilistic Modeling Approach REDRL Research Report 10-2001-01, Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, October 2001. Barkley, D. and M. Henry. Advantages and Disadvantages of Targeting Industry Clusters. REDRL Research Report 09-2001-01, Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, September 2001. Bitto, Annette. 2000. Determinants of Well-Being Among Minority Farm Operators in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. Masters thesis in Rural Sociology, Auburn University. Evensen, C., M. Schulman, C. Runyan, R. Zakocs, and K. Dunn, ?The Downside of Teen Employment: Hazards and Injuries Among Working Teens in North Carolina. Journal of Adolescence, 29: 5: 545-560, 2000 Falk, William and Linda Lobao. Forthcoming. ?Who Benefits from Economic Restructuring? Who is Worse Off?: Lessons from the Past are Challenges for the Future.? In Rural Areas and Policies in the New Millennium. D. Brown and L. Swanson (eds.). State College PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. Findies, J. M. Henry, T. Hirschl, W. Lewis, I, Ortega-Sanchez, E. Peine, and J. Zimmerman. 2001. ?Welfare Reform in Rural America: A Review of Current Research.? Rural Policy Research Institute. P 2001-5. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri. Gibbs, Robert. ?Nonmetro Labor Markets in an Era of Welfare Reform,? Rural America Vol. 16, No. 3. Forthcoming in December 2001. Gibbs, Robert, and John Cromartie. ?Low-wage Counties Face Locational Disadvantages,? Rural Conditions and Trends, Vol. 11, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 9-17. Gibbs, Robert, and Timothy Parker. ARural Low-Wage Employment Rises Among Men,? Rural Conditions and Trends, Vol. 11, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 18-26. Henry, M.S. and W. Lewis. 2001. ?Welfare Reform: Remedy for Persistent Poverty in the Rural South? Rural America 15(2): 59-67. Henry, M.S., B. Schmitt, and V. Piguet. 2001. ?Spatial Econometric Models for Simultaneous Systems: Application to Rural Community Growth in France.? International Regional Science Review. 24(2): 171-193. Kraybill, David and Linda Lobao. 2001. County Government Survey: Changes and Challenges in the New Millennium. Washington, DC: National Association of Counties. Lobao, Linda, Lawrence Brown, and Jon Moore. Forthcoming ?Old Industrial Regions and the Political Economy of Development.? In Communities of Work, W. Falk, M. Schulman, and A. Tickamyer (eds.). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Lobao, Linda and Katherine Meyer. 2001. ?The Great Agricultural Transition: Crisis, Change, and Social Consequences of Twentieth Century U.S. Farming.? The Annual Review of Sociology 27: 103-124. Martmnez Ayala, Josi A., J. Molnar, F.Arias, and T. Popma. 2001. Production and marketing strategies used by small and medium-scale fish farmers in Honduras. Chapter in H. Egna et al. (eds.) PD/A CRSP Eighteenth Annual Technical Report. Corvallis: Oregon State University. McGranahan, David A. ?Rural Manufacturers Seek Well-Educated Workforce,? Rural America (special issue on the South), Vol. 16, No. 1. April 2001. Mencken, F. C. and M. Latimer. ?Extractive Industry Dependency: A Case Study of Appalachian Coal Dependent Counties from 1969-1996.? in Communities of Work W. Falk, M. Schulman, and A. Tickamyer (eds.) Athens, OH: Ohio University press. Molnar, J., P. A. Duffy, L. Claxton, and C. Bailey. 2001. Private food assistance in a small metropolitan area: urban resources and rural needs. Journal of Sociology and Social Work 28:187-210. Molnar, J., A. Bitto, and G. Brant. 2001. Core Conservation Practices: Paths and Barriers Perceived by Small and Limited Resource Farmers. Bulletin 646. Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University. Rank, Mark R. and Thomas A. Hirschl 2002 "Welfare Use as a Life Course Event: Toward a New Understanding of America‘s Safety Net." Social Work 47:(in press). Rank, Mark R. and Thomas A. Hirschl 2001 "Rags or Riches: Estimating the Probabilities of Poverty and Affluence Across the Adult American Life Span." Social Science Quarterly 82:651-669. Rank, Mark R. and Thomas A. Hirschl 2001 "The Measurement of Long Term Risks Across the Life Course." Social Science Quarterly 82:680-686. Rank, Mark R. and Thomas A. Hirschl 2001 "The Occurrence of Poverty Across the Life Cycle: Evidence from the PSID." Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 20: 737-756 Schulman. M. and C. Anderson, ?The Dark Side of the Force: Economic Restructuring and Social Capital in a Company Town, Pp 112-124 in B. Edwards, M. Foley, and M. Diana, Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Contemporary Perspective. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001. Struthers, Cynthia and Janet Bokemeier. Forthcoming. ?Stretched to Their Limits: Rural Non-farm Mothers and the ?New? Rural Economy.? In Communities of Work W. Falk, M. Schulman, and A. Tickamyer (eds.), Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Impact Statements

Date of Annual Report: 02/11/2002

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 11/18/2002 - 11/18/2002
Period the Report Covers: 01/01/2001 - 12/01/2002

Participants

F.Carson Mencken, fmencken@wvu.edu, WVA; Richard Goe, goe@ksuvm.ksu.edu, KS; David Freshwater, dave@rural.org, KY; Linda Lobao, linda.lobao@osu.edu, OH; Cynthia Anderson, cda@iastate.edu, IA; Mark Henry, henfrb@clemson.edu, SC; Robert Gibbs, rgibbs@ers.usda.gov, Washington, DC; Janet Bokemeier, bokemeier@pilot.msu.edu, MI.

Brief Summary of Minutes

7 There were no new members to be confirmed.

7 We discussed state reports. All present presented what research objectives they had been working on the previous year. Mencken reported for states that had sent him copies in advance (NC, PR).

7 We elected officials for next year. Cynthia Anderson will serve as Chair for 2002, Tom Hirschl was elected (in absentia) as Vice-Chair, and Robert Gibbs agreed to serve as Secretary.

7 We discussed technical issues related to the project. Jan Bokemeier reminded us that we need to have a S-296 website. Cynthia Anderson has agreed to pursue this for year 2002. We agreed to meet in conjunction with the RSAI meetings again next year, which will be held in Puerto Rico.

7 Charlie Tolbert and Davis McGranahan report (through Mencken) that they have agreed to develop a commuting zone or labor market area geography with 2000 journey-to-work data (once it is available next year). In the intervening period, they are going to review the procedures used in past delineations and seek advice from GIS and other experts about possible new methodologies that might be employed. They are unlikely to develop a PUMS file with the 2000 geography. They are committed instead to attaching the geography to long-form data housed at the Census Bureau (and potentially at its regional data centers). These forms will provide many more records, much more detailed information, and avoid the need for arbitrary population thresholds such as the 100,000-person criterion used for PUMS-D (1980) and PUMS-L (1990).

7 Michael Schulman reports (through Mencken) that the S-259 book is currently in the hands of two reviewers. The editor at Ohio University Press is very excited about the volume, although she is a little concerned about the eventual length of the volume. The major delay in getting a copy to the reviewers was due to word processing and formatting. We are still expecting a 2002 publication date.

7 Linda Labao reminded the group that the 2003 RSS meetings will be in Montreal, jointly with the agricultural economics meetings. She would like to see a joint panel on spatial inequality at these meetings (and potentially others such as regional or environmental). Please forward to Linda any ideas on this topic.

7 We explored the possibility of having a spring meeting at the Southern Sociological Society meetings in Baltimore. After discussion we decided against a formal meeting, but encourage S-296 people who may be attending that they meet informally to share and discuss their progress.

7 The remainder of the meeting was a discussion of items from the floor. One issue that we discussed concerned the need for commonality among the different state projects. Regional projects must have a similar focus, such as a common model estimated across all states. One way to resolve this issue is to pick one of the objectives from the original proposal and have all states be prepared to report on it at next years annual meeting. Since many of the project members are working on Objective 3, we decided that this would be an appropriate objective to focus on. However, not all project members are in southern states. Therefore, we are asking project members to examine and report on any analysis of spatial mismatch in their state at next years meeting. Robert Gibbs has agreed to explore the possibility of getting a couple of sessions on this topic at the RSAI meetings in Puerto Rico. We also discussed ways to better share and integrate research projects. One idea is to use the website to create an S-296 Working Paper series. A spatial seminar is still a possibility. Those interested in exploring or purchasing SpaceState (currently $400.00) should go to: http://www.spacestat.com/.

7 The meeting adjourned at Noon.

Accomplishments

Progress was made on five of the six objectives in our proposal. In addition, in 2001 this project generated over thirty publications, either in print or forthcoming in print.

Publications

Anderson, C., M. Schulman, and P. Wood, Globalization and Uncertainty: The Restructuring of Southern Textiles. Social Problems 48: 6, pp 479-499. 2001. Anderson, C., M. Schulman, and P. Wood., Race, Place, and State: Sustaining the Textile Security Zone in a Changing Southern Labor Market, in B. Falk, M. Schulman, and A. Tickamyer, Communities of Work. Ohio University Press, 2002 (forthcoming). Anderson, C. and M. Bell. Forthcoming. The Devil of Social Capital: A Dilemma of American Rural Sociology. In Country Visions, P. Cloke (ed.), Essex: Pearson Education. Barkley, D., Y. Kim, and M. Henry. Do Manufacturing Plants Cluster Across Rural Areas? Evidence from a Probabilistic Modeling Approach REDRL Research Report 10-2001-01, Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, October 2001. Barkley, D. and M. Henry. Advantages and Disadvantages of Targeting Industry Clusters. REDRL Research Report 09-2001-01, Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, September 2001. Bausman, Kent, and W. Richard Goe. An Examination of the Link Between Employment Volatility and the Spatial Distribution of Property Crime Rates. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (forthcoming). Bitto, Annette. 2000. Determinants of Well-Being Among Minority Farm Operators in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. Masters thesis in Rural Sociology, Auburn University. Bloomquist, Leonard, W. Richard Goe, and Gary P. Green. Places of Consumption: Restructuring and the Growth of Nonmetropolitan Localities in the United States. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (forthcoming). Evensen, C., M. Schulman, C. Runyan, R. Zakocs, and K. Dunn, The Downside of Teen Employment: Hazards and Injuries Among Working Teens in North Carolina. Journal of Adolescence, 29: 5: 545-560, 2000 Falk, William and Linda Lobao. Forthcoming. Who Benefits from Economic Restructuring? Who is Worse Off?: Lessons from the Past are Challenges for the Future. In Rural Areas and Policies in the New Millennium. D. Brown and L. Swanson (eds.). State College PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. Findies, J. M. Henry, T. Hirschl, W. Lewis, I, Ortega-Sanchez, E. Peine, and J. Zimmerman. 2001. Welfare Reform in Rural America: A Review of Current Research. Rural Policy Research Institute. P 2001-5. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri. Gibbs, Robert. Nonmetro Labor Markets in an Era of Welfare Reform, Rural America Vol. 16, No. 3. Forthcoming in December 2001. Gibbs, Robert, and John Cromartie. Low-wage Counties Face Locational Disadvantages, Rural Conditions and Trends, Vol. 11, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 9-17. Gibbs, Robert, and Timothy Parker. ARural Low-Wage Employment Rises Among Men, Rural Conditions and Trends, Vol. 11, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 18-26. Goe, W. Richard. Factors Associated with the Development of Nonmetropolitan Growth Nodes in Producer Services, 1980-90. Rural Sociology (Conditionally accepted for publication). Goe, W. Richard, Sean A. Noonan, and Sherry Laman. Economic Restructuring and the Growth of Missoula, MT: From Timber to the Consumption and Amenities and Services. To be published in William Falk, Michael Schulman, and Ann Tickamyer (eds.), Communities of Work. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (forthcoming). Henry, M.S. and W. Lewis. 2001. Welfare Reform: Remedy for Persistent Poverty in the Rural South? Rural America 15(2): 59-67. Henry, M.S., B. Schmitt, and V. Piguet. 2001. Spatial Econometric Models for Simultaneous Systems: Application to Rural Community Growth in France. International Regional Science Review. 24(2): 171-193. Kraybill, David and Linda Lobao. 2001. County Government Survey: Changes and Challenges in the New Millennium. Washington, DC: National Association of Counties. Lobao, Linda, Lawrence Brown, and Jon Moore. Forthcoming Old Industrial Regions and the Political Economy of Development. In Communities of Work, W. Falk, M. Schulman, and A. Tickamyer (eds.). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.