For nearly 500 nonmetro counties, the formula for economic success has been to attract retirees as new residents. Rapid growth in population and employment has made such counties a bright spot among otherwise gloomy nonmetro economic news. Questions remain, however, about the quality of the jobs created and about retirees' apparent coolness to funding education and road building programs.
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Reeder et al. (1990) studied this question.