Massachusetts service delivery area job market reports : the Northern Middlesex SDA PDF
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E Commonwealth ofMassachusetts Department of , ^ Employment ' and Training Massachusetts Service Delivery Area Job Market Reports: SDA The Northern Middlesex Oopy WiW'iam F. Weld, Governor Daniel5. Gregory,SecretaryofEconomicAffairs Nils L. Nordberg, CommissionerofEmploynnentandTraining E Department of , , Employment ' and Training Massachusetts Service Delivery Area Job Market Reports: SDA The Northern Middlesex Thefollowing cities and towns comprise the Northern Middlesex SDA: Billerica Dracut Lowell Tyngsborough Chelmsford Dunstable Tewksbury Westford Economic Research and Analysis ElliotA. Winer, Chief Catherine Foley, Economist May 1991 Contents Introduction: the SDAJob Market Reports 1 Howto Interpret theJob Marketand Use theReports 2 Overview: JobTrendsin theSDAs 4 TheSDAProfile 12 NotesAbout theData 45 Appendix 46 Tables Changes inPopulation, Employmentand UnemploymentbyServiceDeliveryArea 4 Job Growth in ServiceDeliveryAreasby Sector, 1984-1989 6 Distribution ofJobs in Service DeliveryAreas by Industryand Occupation 8 1989AverageAnnual Wages bySDAand Industry 10 Employment in Major Groups 14 TopTen Occupations and Industrieswith the Largest Employment 15 LaborForce, Employment and Unemployment 16 TableA: Employmentby Occupation 18 TableB: Employment in Selected Occupations by Industry 26 Table C: Employment in Selected Industries by Occupation 33 Charts Industriesdiffersubstantiallyin thekinds ofworkers theyemploy 3 Unemployment Rates 1984-1990, Massachusettsand U.S 8 Percentageshareofemployment rising fastest inoccupational groups requiringmoreeducation and decreasingin occupations requiringless education 10 DistributionofEmploymentbyIndustryand Occupation 13 Introduction: SDA the Job Market Reports Thisreportanalyzes theecono- studythegeographicalmovementof mies and job markets of the jobsandworkerswithin thestateto Commonwealth's 15 ServiceDeliv- relatethelocation andnumberof eryAreasbetween1984and1990. It workersbyoccupation todemand examinesthekindofjobsthatlocal areas generated or lost over the assessandanalyze the occupational period,theindustriesthatmake up compositionofjobsandskillrequire- the area, the average earnings of ments within 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 growth in all service de- theemergingeconomicforceschang- livery areas. Refer to the appendix ing the job market. Data on local fora listing ofthe cities and towns area population, labor force, em- comprisingaservice deliver)'area . 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 interpretandusethedata. 1983 federal Job Training Partner- ship Act, to tailor the Common- This report also analyzes theoccu- wealth's employment and training pational staffing patterns of local programsto theneedsofcitizensin economies, publishing for the first local areas. Some service delivery time, a detailed occupational em- areasconsistofasinglecounty,othCTS ploymentdata basebySDA. Labor arecomprisedoftwoormorecoun- leaders,educators,humanresource ties. The Boston Service Delivery specialists, and Regional Employ- Area is the only single-city SDA, ment Boards can usethis data to: whileotherscross countylines. plan anddesign educationand trainingprograms 1 How The 1980and 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 ofthe 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 employment opportunities. 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,7972andthel977Sup- ployed. This count is residentially- changesinpopulation,employment plemenL based and includes self-employed andunemploymentinall15Service andunpaid familyworkers in addi- DeliveryAreas,highlightingthegeo- How to Use the Data tion towage andsalaryworkers. graphic concentration of jobs by The following sections briefly out- industryand occupation. Section II line how to interpret and use the Growth vs. Number ofJobs profilestherespectiveservicedeliv- data. Whenassessinganarea'seconomic eiyareaandpresentsadetailedseries viabihty, 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.Even thoughanareahas TableAin Section IIlists thenum- Ifan area has high unemployment afastrateofjobgrowth itmaygen- ber ofjobs by occupation and pro- and is losing its economic base, a erate fewer numbers of jobs than \idesthepercentdistributionofthe 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 fastgrowingeconomies. Themore oftheCommonwealth'sjobs.Many ofsimilaror related occupations. jobs an area generates, the more of these jobs were low paying and people move into the area to seek decreasedthearea!spercentageshare TableBinSection IIliststheindus- employment Population growth, oftotalstatewages. Bycomparison, trieswherejobsare found in major however, can occur independently the city of Boston was the slowest occupations. Finally, Table C pres- of employment in certain areas, growingarea,withjobgrowthaver- ents the number and type of jobs particularlyiftheregion is a retire- aging 0.7 percent peryear. Never- foundinmajorindustriesinthelocal mentcommunity. theless, becauseofits size it gener- economy. Industries are defined in ated 7.6percentofthestate'sjobs. termsoftheStandardIndustrialClas- 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
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