@article{Beaulieu:289477,
      recid = {289477},
      author = {Beaulieu, Lionel J. and Barfield, Melissa A. and Stone,  Katherine L.},
      title = {Educated Workforce, Quality Jobs: Still Elusive Goals in  the Rural South},
      journal = {Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives},
      address = {2001-02},
      number = {2221-2019-2455},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {Adult rural Southerners have made remarkable progress in  improving their educational status over the past decade,  but quality jobs requiring collegeeducated workers remain  more a dream than a reality in the rural South. The most  rapidly growing segments of the rural Southern economy are  paying wages and salaries that are well below those paid to  metro-based Southerners. Consequently, the gap in average  earnings has widened between Southern metro and nonmetro  workers during the 1990's. Projected job expansion over  1996-2005 offers little hope for improvement since the  majority of such jobs will demand persons with no more than  a terminal high school education and some on-the-job  training.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/289477},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.289477},
}