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The Effective Labor Force in the Montgomery County Labor Market
Glass, Robert Krider, Charles Nelson, Kevin
Glass, Robert
Krider, Charles
Nelson, Kevin
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The Montgomery County Labor Market contains a sizable pool of available labor, much of it educated and trained. Survey results indicated that in September 1997, about 2,000 persons were unemployed and 4,300 more were underemployed, creating a labor pool of about 6,300 persons either seeking employment or seeking improved employment. The underemployed workers are educated and skilled and want full-time, permanent jobs that require the skills they have developed through education, formal training, and on-the-job training.
This report is based on a survey of the Montgomery County Labor Market conducted in September 1997 by the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Research located at the University of Kansas. The 400 responses, from a region containing all or parts of ten counties in both Kansas and Oklahoma, found an unemployment rate of 4.0% and an underemployment rate of 9.1 %. Analysis suggests that the estimated unemployment rate is probably biased downward, and that the "true" unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 4.1 % and 4.5%.
In addition, a higher percentage of the employed workers in this labor market are currently in school or receiving additional special training ( 11.8%) than was found in the state of Kansas two years ago. Members of the labor force want and continue to improve its skills, primarily for the purpose of either finding a better job or getting a promotion at their current place of work.
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1997-11
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Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas
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Robert Glass, Charles Krider, Kevin Nelson. The Effective Labor Force in the Montgomery County Labor Market. Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas. Technical Report Series: 241 (November 1997).