Why the income gap between rural and urban workers has grown

The rural-urban income divide persists, and it may be widening

There has been a long-standing gap between the earnings of rural and urban workers. In fact, the divide may be widening.

Employment and wage disparities between rural and urban areas

Rural workers are paid, on average, 24 per cent less than their urban counterparts on an hourly basis, and only half of this gap can be explained by rural– ...

Geographic Inequality on the Rise in the U.S.

The gap in incomes between richer places and poorer places has grown. Strikingly, geographic income inequality continued to climb in recent ...

Changes in the U.S. Economy and Rural-Urban Employment ...

These relatively large, negative employment effects may be due, in part, to differences in the historical industrial composition of nonmetro ...

Rural Employment and Unemployment - USDA ERS

The lack of rural population growth and coinciding soft demand for local goods and services likely contributed to slow employment growth in ...

Moving Apart: How Non-College Workers Fare in Urban and Rural ...

In urban places, economic growth has hollowed out middle-class work, leaving fewer good quality jobs available for those without a four-year ...

Wage Gap Widens, Especially in Cities | St. Louis Fed

Changing Employment Opportunities · Rising Demand for Highly Educated Workers · Declining Union Activity.

The equity of economic opportunity in rural America

These are patterns of economic disparity that we can see repeating and amplifying over time: By December 2022, 63% of rural counties had fewer ...

Why the income gap between rural and urban workers has grown

Why clear #econdev strategies matter even more now for rural communities: The urban-#rural income gap is growing. In #cities, people earn ...

Gaps in U.S. rural and urban economic growth widened in the post ...

Decreasing educational attainment brought about an ever-widening labor force participation gap between rural and urban areas. Looking at the ...

Why the income gap between rural and urban workers has grown

In cities, people earn about 23% more than in rural areas, according to the New York Fed. That difference was about 20% before the pandemic.

Population Change and Income Inequality in Rural America - PMC

Findings from previous research have shown that population growth is positively associated with income inequality. However, these studies are largely motivated ...

Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical ...

However, the ratio of disposable income of urban and rural residents, which increased from 2.57:1 in 1978 to 3.20:1 in 2019, indicates that China's urban–rural ...

LAC Equity Lab: Income Inequality - Urban/Rural Inequality

Inequality is higher in rural than in urban areas of LAC, but had been decreasing in both during the last 15 years, however, following the pandemic caused ...

Income inequality is getting worse in US urban areas

For most of the past five decades, income inequality has been higher in rural counties than in urban areas. Now, urban areas are catching ...

How services increased the economic gap between the rural and ...

In other words, big cities are specialising in knowledge-intensive service sectors – becoming larger and attracting skilled and unskilled ...

Rural Economy & Population - USDA ERS

Nonmetro areas in some parts of the country have experienced population loss for decades. Opportunities for population growth and economic ...

Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”

... rural-urban gap for workers with less than a high ... While underemployment for Hispanic workers has grown larger for those in urban compared to rural ...

Inequality – Bridging the Divide - the United Nations

Income inequality between countries has improved, yet income inequality within countries has become worse. ... between rural or urban areas, than within regions.

1. Demographic and economic trends in urban, suburban and rural ...

Poverty has increased more sharply in suburbs than in urban or rural counties · Growing share of residents of all county types have college ...