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Resource Use Rates: Estimation Of Time Invariant Decision Rules (Erosion), Douglas John Lawrence
Resource Use Rates: Estimation Of Time Invariant Decision Rules (Erosion), Douglas John Lawrence
Doctoral Dissertations
As interest in soil conservation has increased, understanding the soil management decision rule used by farmers has become more important. The model developed to analyze the optimal decision rule for soil use rates is essentially a supply response model which assumes rational expectations. It can be characterized as a dynamic optimal control model with feedback from decisions to states. Three Stage Least Squares estimation is re-interpreted to fit the requirements of rational expectations. The estimated coefficients suggest that soil conservation policy must consider general economic variables as well as traditional variables such as soil depth and cost sharing to be …
The Organization Of Work In Residential Construction (New Hampshire), Kent Alan Klitgaard
The Organization Of Work In Residential Construction (New Hampshire), Kent Alan Klitgaard
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation focuses upon the relations of work in the housebuilding sector of the New Hampshire economy. While changing technology is integrated into the analysis, the primary concentration is upon the organization of work, which includes the development of the technical division of labor, supervision and structures of control, and the degrees of dependence or independence afforded the worker. The study is located within the theoretical context of the subordination of labor to capital. Analysts of the labor process have asserted that the formal subordination of labor to capital exists when private ownership and the relations of wage labor and …