Workforce
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A laborshed is defined as the area or region from which an employment center draws its commuting workers. Larborshed studies show the distribution of the workers irrespective of natural or political boundaries and address underemployment, the availability and willingness of current and prospective employees to change employment within the workforce, current and desired occupations, wages, hours worked and distance willing to commute to work. Knoxville, in collaboration with the Iowa Workforce Development, completed a study of the Knoxville Area laborshed in January of 2010.
Knoxville Laborshed Executive Summary(272kb PDF Document)