Massachusetts service delivery area job market reports : the Southern Essex SDA PDF
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Commonwealth ofMassachusetts Department of , Employment ' and Training Massachusetts Service Delivery Area Job Market Reports: SDA The Southern Essex CJ, William F. Weld, Covernor DanielS. Cregory,SecretaryofEconomicAffairs Nils L. Nordberg, CommissionerofEmploymentandTraining Department of f Employment and Training Massachusetts Service Delivery Area Job Market Reports: SDA The Southern Essex Beverly Ipswich Middleton Saugus Danvers Lynn Nahant Swampscott Essex Lynnfield Peabody Topsfield Gloucester Manchester Rockport Wenham Hamilton Marblehead Salem Economic Research and Analysis Elliot A. Winer, Chief Catherine Foley, Economist May 1991 Contents Introduction: theSDAJobMarket Reports 1 Howto Interpret theJob Marketand Use theReports 2 Overview: JobTrends in the SDAs 4 TheSDAProfile 12 NotesAbout theData 59 Appendix 60 Tables Changes in Population, Employmentand UnemploymentbyServiceDeliveryArea 4 Job Growth in Service DeliveryAreasby Sector, 1984-1989 6 DistributionofJobs in ServiceDeliveryAreas by Industryand Occupation 8 1989AverageAimualWagesbySDAand Industry 10 Employment inMajorGroups 14 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/massachusettsser00mass_10 Top Ten Occupations and Industrieswith the Largest Employment 15 LaborForce, Employment and Unemployment 16 TableA: EmploymentbyOccupation 18 TableB: Employment in Selected Occupations by Industry 27 Table C: Employment in Selected Industries byOccupation 42 Charts Industriesdiffersubstantiallyin thekinds ofworkers theyemploy 3 UnemploymentRates 1984-1990, Massachusettsand U.S 8 Percentageshareofemploymentrising fastest in occupational groups requiringmoreeducationand decreasinginoccupations requiringless education 10 DistributionofEmploymentby Industryand Occupation 13 . Introduction: SDA the Job Market Reports Thisreportanalyzestheecono- studythegeographicalmovementof mies and job markets of the jobsandworkers within thestateto Commonwealth's 15 ServiceDeliv- relatethelocation andnumberof eryAreasbetween1984and1990. It workersbyoccupation todemand examinesthekindofjobsthatlocal areas generated or lost over the assess andanalyze the occupational period,theindustriesthat make up compositionofjobsandskillrequire- the area, the average earnings of mentswithin areas. workers,thelevelofunemployment andeducationintheworkforce,and Thereare15ServiceDeliveryAreas the distribution ofjobs by occupa- inMassachusetts,eachprofiledina 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 deliveryarea 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 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,others ploymentdata basebySDA. Labor arecomprisedoftwoormorecoun- leaders,educators,humanresource ties. The Boston Service Delivery specialists, and Regional Employ- Area is the only single-city SDA, ment Boardscan use thisdata to: whileotherscrosscounty lines. 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 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 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,1972andthel977Sup- ployed. This count is residentially- changesinpopulation,employment plement. based and includes self-employed andunemploymentinall15Service and unpaid familyworkers in addi- DeliveryAreas,highlightingthegeo- How to 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. Number ofJobs profilestherespectiveservicedeliv- data. Whenassessinganarea'seconomic eryareaandpresentsadetailedseries viability, it is important to distin- of tables on the area's occupations Population guish between 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 the num- Ifan area has high unemployment afastrateofjobgrowthit maygen- 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 population and income. Theoppo- had the second fastest job growth oftheSDA Occupationsaregrouped site is generally true in areas with rate,butgeneratedonly4.7 percent by skill level to allow comparisons fast growingeconomies. The more 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 decreasedthearea!spercentageshare TableBinSectionIIliststheindus- 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 particularlyiftheregionisaretire- aging 0.7 percent peryear. Never- foundinmajorindustriesinthelocal mentcommunity. theless, becauseofits size it gener- economy. Industries are defined in ated 7.6percentofthestate'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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