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The Effect of Changes in Manufacturing Employment on Real Estate Tax Rates in Rural Communities of Pennsylvania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Donald J. Epp  and
William C. Bates
Donald J. Epp
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
William C. Bates
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Rural communities in Pennsylvania, as well as in many other parts of the United States, have exhibited a great deal of variation in population trends in recent years. Many rural communities have experienced a declining population along with a decreasing employment base. This causes problems of finding new sources of employment as well as providing educational and other public services that are adequate for their remaining population but are financed by a decreasing fiscal base. On the other hand, many rural communities have experienced a new spurt of economic and population growth resulting in a need for additional public services. While the particular problems to be faced are different depending on whether the community is growing or declining, they each have their own peculiar types of problems.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 1973 , pp. 121 - 129
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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1/ This section is based on work done by John E. Gerweck and reported in “The Effect of New Industry on the Financial Position of Urban Fringe Township Government: A Case Study of Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania,” unpublished M.S. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 1971. Mr. Gerweck assisted in the present study by suggesting ways in which his model might be applied to the population being analyzed.Google Scholar

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