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The Drive For Flexibility And The Growth Of "Flexible" Staffing Arrangements, Susan Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Temporary Employment Agencies In Welfare To Work: Part Of The Problem Or Part Of The Solution?, Susan Houseman, David Autor

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

Outsourcing To Staffing Services: How Manufacturers' Use Of Staffing Agencies Affects Employment And Productivity Measurement, Matthew Dey, Susan N. Houseman, Anne E. Polivka

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

Job Security And Work Force Adjustment: How Different Are U.S. And Japanese Practices?, Katharine Abraham, Susan Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

New Institute Survey On Flexible Staffing Arrangements, Susan N. Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

Missing Pieces: A New Report To Congress Details Biases And Gaps In Economic Statistics Resulting From Globalization, Susan N. Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

Trade, Competitiveness And Employment In The Global Economy, Susan Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

Perspectives From China: Social Media And Living Well In A Chinese Context, Sarah Mattice

UNF Faculty Research and Scholarship

The United States has a current population of approximately 313.9 million people. In 2013, more than 600 million users had active accounted on Qzone, China’s largest social media site (Millward 2013). Although discussions of social media tend to assume American or European users, social media is a worldwide phenomenon, and different locales bring different concerns to bear on social media ethics. China not only leads the world in terms of sheer numbers of users, but also has the most active environment for social media, ranging from instant chat platforms like QQ to blogs, microblogs, social networking sites, and gaming platforms. …

Estimación De Rendimientos Crecientes En Las Manufacturas Regionales Mexicanas Utilizando La Ley Verdoorn, Isaac Sánchez-Juárez, Rosa María-García

Isaac Sánchez-Juárez

Este artículo tiene como objetivo demostrar la existencia de rendimientos crecientes en las industrias manufactureras regionales mexicanas. Para ello se estimó la ley Verdoorn, según la cual los incrementos en la producción industrial se traducen en mejoras de productividad. En el trabajo se estimaron cuatro diferentes formas (ecuaciones) de la ley, usando la técnica de Mínimos Cuadrados Ordinarios con datos regionales para el periodo 1993-2003, también se recurrió a series de tiempo para exhibir una prueba de causalidad de Granger entre las variables involucradas. Los resultados confirman, parcialmente, la existencia de rendimientos crecientes, así como una causalidad bidireccional entre la …

Hospital Chargemaster Insanity: Heeling The Healers, George A. Nation Iii

George A Nation III

Hospital list prices, contained in something called a chargemaster are insanely high, often running 10 times the amount that hospitals routinely accept as full payment from insurers. Moreover, the relative level of a particular hospital’s chargemaster prices bears no relationship to either the quality of the services the hospital provides or, to the cost of the services provided. The purpose of these fictitious list prices is to serve as a starting point or anchoring point, for negotiations with third-party payers regarding the amount that they will actually pay the hospital for it’s goods and services.

Ironically, there is widespread agreement, …

Contribution Of Education And Innovation To Productivity Among Mexican Regions: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis, Vicente German-Soto, Luis Gutiérrez Flores

Vicente German-Soto

A Simple Solution To The Distance Puzzle: Balanced Data And Poisson Estimation, Roger White, David Buehler

Economics

We propose the use of a balanced panel data set and Poisson regression as a solution to the distance puzzle. Employing annual data for the period 1972–2010, we confirm the existence of the puzzle by applying OLS regression to both an unbalanced panel data set and a narrowly defined balanced panel. We find that Poisson regression remedies the distance puzzle, producing a constant trend for the distance coefficient when the unbalanced panel is examined and a positive trend for the balanced data. The findings confirm the common intuition that the influence of transport costs on trade flows has decreased over …

Administrative Procedures, Bureaucracy, And Transparency: Why Does The Fcc Vote On Secret Texts?, Scott J. Wallsten

Scott J. Wallsten

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not reveal the text of regulations on which it votes. Instead, after the vote the Commission grants the relevant bureau “editorial privileges” to continue drafting the order. It then releases the final version days, weeks, or even months after the vote. As a result, it is not possible to know if everything in the final rule was actually subject to a vote. In particular, it raises the question of whether the delay between vote and publication is truly for “editorial” changes or if more substantive changes occur after the vote.

In this paper, …

American And British Strategies In The Competition For Energy Resources In Sub-Saharan Africa, Stefan Andreasson

Stefan Andreasson

No abstract provided.

South Africa: Building For The Future, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Africa’s second-largest economy seeks to get back on the road to growth

Indonesia’S Challenges, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Supply side constraints will be key to how South East Asia’s largest country maintains the six percent growth it needs to tackle the poverty rate and grow

Climate Change, Disasters & Displacement, Elizabeth Ferris

Brookings Scholar Lecture Series

This lecture examines trends in natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and their impact on human rights, including economic costs, the displacement/migration of people, and the likelihood that the poor and marginalized are most likely to be affected by natural disasters and climate change.

The Bandar Seri Begawan Report: National Landscape, Current Challenges And Opportunities For Growth, Institute For Societal Leadership, Lai Cheng Lim

Institute of Societal Leadership Research Collection

Brunei, known as the “Abode of Peace”, is a small state in Southeast Asia located on the north-west coast of the island of Borneo in the Indonesian Archipelago. Its 161 kilometres of coastline faces the South China Sea while it is enclosed on land by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, which divides it in two. Brunei Darussalam comprises four districts, Brunei-Muara (where the capital Bandar Seri Begawan is situated), Tutong, Belait and Temburong.

I'M Retiring ... Well, Sort Of, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

I’m 45 years old and I’m retiring ... from writing regular columns for workspan. And that has me thinking about retirement and incentives as part of a total rewards system.

Does Defensive Medicine Reduce Health Care Spending?, Scott Barkowski

Publications

The medical community often argues that physician fear of legal liability increases health care spending. Theoretically, though, the effect could be positive or negative, and empirical evidence has supported both cases. Previous empirical work, however, has ignored the fact that physicians face risk from industry oversight groups like state-level medical licensing boards in addition to civil litigation risk. This paper addresses this omission by incorporating previously unused data on punishments by oversight groups against physicians, known as adverse actions, along with malpractice payments data to study state-level health care spending. My analysis suggests that health care spending does not rise …