About half of nonmetro establishments reported exports in 1995 that amounted to 10 percent of nonmetro manufacturing shipments. Large plants accounted for most exports. Nonmetro exports of metal products, machinery, and electrical and transportation equipment are about equal to exports by natural resource-based industries. Nonmetro plants were slightly less likely to export than metroplants, but the difference disappeared when other characteristics were taken into account. Characterize Iowa Firms, by Terry L. Besser , Iowa State University.
Benefits are significantly lower for part-time employees.
Iowa businesses are in firms with fewer than 20 employees. Migration, Residential Mobility, and Poverty in Rural Pennsylvania, by Jason P. Schachter . Because of its profound implications for growth and decline in rural America, migration has long been a topic of interest. Migration is critical for explaining processes of urbanization, as workers venture into nonmetro counties to live while commuting to jobs in the central cities and expanding suburbs of metro America. This article uses the 1990 Census and a special 1991 survey of low-income families living in nonmetro areas of Pennsylvania to explore the reasons the poor move.