Document Type
Article
Abstract
Iowa fared better than most other states in the recent recession. Yet within Iowa, there was considerable variation in how each county performed. I use a regression model to investigate the reasons for the differences. Counties that did better than average tended to have larger farm, retail trade, and real estate sectors; they also had larger percentages of both 15 to 19 year olds and Social Security recipients. Counties that fared worse than average typically relied more heavily on government employment.
Publication Date
Spring 2012
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
14
Issue
1
First Page
13
Last Page
32
Copyright
©2012 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Sailer, Joslyn
(2012)
"Explaining Differences in Unemployment Rates across Iowa Counties in the Early Stages of the Great Recession,"
Major Themes in Economics, 14, 13-32.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol14/iss1/4