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M M% EMSS' A Si ,5 ; f /3 / L \M<^r. J . . Commonweallh ofMassachusetts Department of ^ , UMASS/AMHERST m Employment and Training 31EDbb QB&B ^^&7 3 Massachusetts Service Del Area ivery Job Market Reports: The Lower Merrimack SDA Valley J) WilliamF. Weld, Governor Daniels. Gregory,SecretaryofEconomicAffairs NilsL Nordberg,CommissioryerofEmploymentandTraining ^Department of Employment and Training Massachusetts Service Delivery Area Job Market Reports: SDA The Lower Merrimack Valley ThefollowingcitiesandtownscomprisetheLowerMerrimackValleySDA Amesbury Groveland Methuen Salisbury Andover Haverhill Newbury West Newbury Boxford Lawrence North Andover Georgetown Merrimack Rowley Economic Research and AnaK'Sis Elliot A. V\iner, Chief Catherine Foley, Economist Mav 1991 Contents Introduction: the SDAJob Market Reports 1 Howto Interpret theJob Marketand Use theReports 2 Overview: JobTrends in theSDAs 4 The SDAProfile 12 Notes About theData 53 Appendix 54 Tables Changes in Population, Employment and UnemploymentbyServiceDeliveryArea 4 Job Growth in ServiceDeliveryAreasby Sector, 1984-1989 6 Distribution ofJobs in ServiceDeliveryAreas by Industryand Occupation 8 1989AverageAnnualWages bySDAand Industry 10 Employment in Major Groups 14 Top Ten Occupations and Industrieswith the Largest Employment 15 Labor Force, Employmentand Unemployment 16 TableA: EmploymentbyOccupation 18 Table B: Employment in Selected Occupations by Industry 27 Table C: Employmentin Selected Industries byOccupation 40 Charts Industriesdiffersubstantiallyin thekinds ofworkers theyemploy 3 UnemploymentRates 1984-1990, Massachusetts and U.S 8 Percentageshareofemployment rising fastest inoccupational groups requiringmore education and decreasinginoccupations requiringlesseducation 10 DistributionofEmploymentbyIndustryand Occupation 13 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/massachusettsser00mass_3 Introduction: SDA the Job Market Reports This reportanalyzes theecono- studythegeographicalmovementof mies and job markets of the jobsandworkers within thestate to Commonwealth's 15 ServiceDeliv- relatethelocation andnumberof eryAreasbetween 1984and1990. It workersbyoccupation todemand examinesthekindofjobsthatlocal areas generated or lost over the assess andanalyze the occupational period, theindustriesthat makeup compositionofjobsandskillrequire- the area, the average earnings of mentswithin areas. workers,thelevelofunemployment andeducationintheworkforce,and Thereare15ServiceDeliveryAreas the distribution ofjobs by occupa- inMassachusetts,each profiledina tion. separatereport. Each report, how- ever, contains an overview of the Thisreportprovidesanoverviewof economic growih in all senice de- theemergingeconomicforceschang- livery areas. Refer to the appendix ing the job market. Data on local for a listing ofthe cities and towns area population, labor force, em- comprisingaservicedeliveryarea . ployment, unemployment, job growth, wages, and income are in- Service DeliveryAreas were estab- cluded as well as information on lished under the provisions of the howto interpretand usethedata. 1983 federal Job Training Partner- ship Act, to tailor the Common- This report also analyzes theoccu- wealth's emploment and training pational staffing patterns of local programsto theneedsofcitizensin economies, publishing for the first local areas. Some service deliven, time, a detailed occupational em- areasconsistofasinglecount);others ployment databasebySDA, Labor arecomprisedoftwoormorecoun- leaders,educators,humanresource ties. The Boston Service Delivers specialists, and Regional Employ- Area is the only single-city SDA. ment Boardscan usethisdata to: whileothers cross county lines. plan anddesign educationand trainingprograms 1 How The1980and 1988populationesti- to mates are from the Bureau of the Census. Natural increases are de- Interpret the Job Market rived from the Massachusetts De- partment of Public Health's esti- mates of births and deaths. Net and Use the Reports migration estimates are derived by subtracting the total net change in populationfromthenaturalincrease. Labor Force The size and characteristics of the labor force determine the number and type of people competing for jobs. Changes in educational re- quirements, the size of the labor force, and the age structure affect employmentopportunities. Table I lists the total number of personsinthelaborforce,i.e.,those This report is divided into two sec- the Standard Industrial Classifica- that are either employed or unem- tions. Section I summarizes the tionManual,1972aindlhQ.1977Sup- ployed. Thiscount is residentially- changesinpopulation,employment plement. based and includes self-employed andunemploymentinall15Service and unpaid familyworkers in addi- DeliveryAreas,highlightingthegeo- Howto Use the Data tion towageandsalaryworkers. graphic concentration of jobs by The following sections briefly out- industryand occupation. Section II line how to interpret and use the Growth vs. NumberofJobs profilestherespectiveservicedeliv- data. Whenassessinganarea'seconomic eiyareaandpresentsadetailedseries viability, it is important to distin- oftables on the area's occupations Population guishbetween an area's rate ofjob and industries. Population trends provide a meas- creation and the number of jobs ureofan area's economicstability. generated.Eventhoughanareahas A Table inSection IIlists thenum- Ifan area has high unemployment a fastrateofjobgrowthitmaygen- ber ofjobs by occupation and pro- and is losing its economic base, a erate fewer numbers of jobs than videsthepercentdistributionofthe decline in employment usually re- slow growing areas. For example, jobs within the area, highlighting sults in an eventual decrease in theBrocktonServiceDeliveryArea the diverse occupational structure populationand income.Theoppo- had the second fastest job growth oftheSDA Occupationsaregrouped site is generally true in areas with rate,butgeneratedonly4.7percent by skill level to allow comparisons fast growingeconomies. Themore oftheCommonwealth'sjobs.Many ofsimilarorrelated occupations. jobs an area generates, the more of these jobs were low paying and people move into the area to seek decreasedthearealspercentageshare TableBinSectionIIliststheindus- employment. Population growth, oftotalstatewages. Bycomparison, trieswherejobsarefound in major however, can occur independently the city of Boston was the slowest occupations. Finally,TableC pres- of employment in certain areas, growingarea,withjobgrowthaver- ents the number and type of jobs particularlyiftheregionisaretire- aging0.7 percent peryear. Never- foundinmajorindustriesinthelocal ment community. theless, becauseofits size it gener- economy. Industries are defined in ated7.6percent ofthestate'sjobs. termsoftheStandard IndustrialQas- Population changes from natural A sification (SIC) system. detailed increases, the difference in the Theindustryemploymentdatashown descriptionoftheSIC,includingin- number of births and deaths, and in Table 2 is compiled through the dustry definitions is contained in migration,areidentified inTableI. Department of Employment and 2
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