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The Effects Of Political Instability On Economic Growth: A Case For Sub-Saharan Africa, Gregory Wayne Willis

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have experienced both poor economic performance and substantial political instability since their independence. There have been numerous studies investigating the possible relationship between political instability and economic growth. The common approach to investigating this relationship is to measure the effect of economic growth on the probability of political instability. This paper takes the opposite approach by investigating the effects of political instability on economic growth. We believe that political instability disrupts the economic system causing a reduction in growth. We measure this effect using regression analysis to estimate two models we have developed. The first …

Shopping For Schools, Betty Paiewonsky Kirk

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This report contains information about the implications of Ohio Senate Bill 140 which will go into effect in 1993. It contains comparisons of ten center city schools in the form of articles specifically directed at each of those cities. Parental choice will produce profound changes in school finance and hopefully will improve the quality of educational outputs. Highlighted is the need for better information that the currently designed system will be unable to fulfill. The goal of this report is to delineate the issues for both parents and policy makers.

Lottery Fever: Is It Healthy?, Joel E. Abrahamson

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

Throughout the history of governments and their relations with the people, there has existed a necessary evil which is anything but popular. This evil is the principle of taxation. While it is widely accepted that the collective benefits that accompany a reasonable level of taxation are worth the individual pecuniary inconveniences, the prospect of raising taxes always aggravates the general public. Because politicians view more and more services as the route to increased public satisfaction, ideas for new programs and ventures arise each day in the states making it imperative that additional revenue sources be tapped or existing programs be …

La Construcción Colectiva Para Las Mujeres (The Women's Construction Collective): Edificando Para El Futuro, Ruth Mcleod

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Este número de SEEDS se enfoca en un programa creado para integrar a la mujer de ingresos bajos a la industría de la construcción en Jamaica. En dos años, hubo 34 mujeres que recibieron cursos básicos del programa y de capacitación más avanzados. Más del 90 por ciento de estas mujeres fueron empleadas; la mayoría son carpinteras y albaniles. La historia de cómo se identificó este campo como fuente potencial de ingresos para la mujer, y cómo se desarrolló el proyecto respondiendo a las circunstancias siempre cambiantes, presenta muchas lecciones útiles. Este proyecto será de especial interés para aquellos que …

Back To Work: Testing Reemployment Services For Displaced Workers, Howard S. Bloom

Upjohn Press

Bloom presents findings from the Texas Worker Adjustment Demonstration, a 2,192-person randomized experimental evaluation of reemployment programs for displaced workers conducted at three sites in Texas. This project demonstrated that a relatively inexpensive mix of job-search assistance and limited occupational skills training can be a cost-effective means of assisting displaced workers.

Labor-Management Cooperation: New Partnerships Or Going In Circles?, William N. Cooke

Upjohn Press

Cooke answers important questions about labor-management cooperative efforts and addresses the problems undermining these efforts. His analyses are based on a variety of secondary data sources plus primary data from three nationwide surveys of plant managers, union leaders, and industry executives. Also included are several prescriptions for the success of labor-management cooperative efforts.

Two-Tier Compensation Structures: Their Impact On Unions, Employers, And Employees, James Martin, Thomas D. Heetderks

Upjohn Press

Martin conducted a study at a large company where its various wage tier systems allowed assessment of the long-term impact of tiers. Part of this study included the development of a survey designed to explore eight research questions related to tiers and to test five hypotheses of low-tier v. high-tier employees.

An Econometric Analysis Of Unemployment Insurance Benefits Adequacy, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is expensive, yields small samples, and presumes that the analyst knows which categories of expenditure are necessary. This paper uses an existing large data set, and an agnostic approach. Labor supply are equations are estimated on PSID data using an estimator which accounts for rationing in the labor market. The results are used to compute labor market constraint compensation for comparison to payments under UI systems of representative states. The results suggest that payments which meet the accepted standard of adequacy would usually slightly overcompensate individuals.

Does Training Work For Displaced Workers?: A Survey Of Existing Evidence, Duane E. Leigh

Upjohn Press

Leigh examines nine demonstration projects and operating programs to determine how well public retraining programs for displaced workers fulfill their roles.

Clark A. Warburton (1896-1979), John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Jevons's Applications Of Utilitarian Theory To Economic Policy, Sandra J. Peart

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

The precise nature of W. S. Jevons's utilitarianism as a guiding rule for economic policy has yet to be investigated, and that will be the first issue treated in this paper. While J. A. Schumpeter, for instance, asserted that 'some of the most prominent exponents of marginal utility' (including Jevons), were 'convinced utilitarians', he did not investigate the further implications for Jevons's policy analysis.¹

The World Trading System: Law And Policy Of International Economic Relations, Lori Fisler Damrosch

Faculty Scholarship

This book serves an important need by providing a clear overview of an increasingly complex subject. The author, a leading figure in international trade law, has distilled his accumulated wisdom into an accessible account of the major features of the world trading system. His intended audience includes not only lawyers, but political scientists, economists, government officials and others as well. While he acknowledges that his own "comparative advantage" is in the legal aspects of the field (p. 6), he places the legal concepts in their political and economic context to write a treatment that will be enlightening to readers from …

Pakistan - An Economic And Social Agenda For The 1990'S, Ishrat Husain Dr

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

The euphoria and mood of jubilation and exaltation in Pakistan, ignited by the recent events leading to restoration of civilian rule, provides both an opportunity as well as a challenge for setting a long term agenda and perspective for the country. Having lived virtually from day to day with pangs of anxiety, fears of uncertainity and feelings of despair, the people of this country need from the civilian rulers of Pakistan -"-- whether at the Centre or the Provinces --- specification of goals, a clear sense of future direction and a road map to guide them. Should, God forbid, our …

New Mexico Labor Market Review 12-29-1989, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review was prepared by the New Mexico Department of Labor in cooperation with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for November of 1989. It is a report on the state's employment and economic activity.

Metropolitan Report - December 21, 1989, Division Of Business And Economic Research, College Of Business Administration, University Of New Orleans

UNO Metropolitan Report (1986-2017)

No abstract provided.

Planning: New Imperative, Abid Hussain

IIMB Management Review

Planning must take note of the fact that while the economy is integrating, the indian polity is fragmenting and society is becoming more divisive. The fragmentation of polity and assertion of separate group or community identities are perhaps a part of an inescapable process. How this fragmentation and divisive aspects of society are to be managed in a national perspective, is an
the emerging challenge for planning.

                                                      The need right now is to stimulate further growth. Without higher growth, we will end up only redistributing poverty. Taking into account the growth performance of the Indian economy since 1980. It is …

Estimate Of Compliance Costs And Benefit_Dec 1989, Anna Weniger Lamberson

BBER Publications

The report estimates compliance costs, identifies geographic areas most likely to be affected, and compares those costs with the potential benefits of avoiding groundwater contamination and the need for expensive public water and sewer infrastructure.

Estimate Of Compliance Costs And Benefits Of Proposed Revisions To The New Mexico Liquid Waste Regulations, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

This report evaluates the socioeconomic impacts of proposed groundwater protection revisions to the New Mexico Liquid Waste Regulations, establishing a minimum lot size of .75 acres for on-site disposal systems. Prepared by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of New Mexico, the study reveals that while the regulations will incur a one-time per-household land compliance cost between $200 and $14,000, the total economic benefits are nearly two times greater than the costs because they systematically avert the need for expensive community water and sewer infrastructure.

New Mexico Labor Market Review 11-30-1989, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review was prepared by the New Mexico Department of Labor in cooperation with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for October of 1989. It is a report on the state's employment and economic activity.

Tourist Hotel Food And Beverage Imports In Fiji And Vanuatu, Larry Dwyer

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

New Mexico Labor Market Review 10-31-1989, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review was prepared by the New Mexico Department of Labor in cooperation with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for September of 1989. It is a report on the state's employment and economic activity.

Organization Design And Development, Chang-Wang Chen

Theses

As our knowledge of the behavioral science continues to increase, so also does our use of that knowledge. One of the most rapidly expanding fields in the development and application of behavioral science knowledge is organization development (OD). Not only are the behavioral sciences receiving more attention in all types of organizations, but many different countries are also becoming more involved in the human aspects of work. The innovations undertaken by McDonald's and Yamazaki Baking in the area of job enrichment is one indication of such interest.

Human needs are changing rapidly, as is the world itself. In terms of …

Small Business Management : A Case Study In Taiwan, Lilly Chin

Theses

In this research, a case study concerning small business management was conducted in Taiwan, Republic of China.

Taylor's theory, Cost Accounting System and Japanese Quality Control methods were practiced in a real situation of Taiwan manufacture. The advantages and disadvantages of their use were evaluated.

Besides, it was found that the major problems facing small business in Taiwan were:

(1) Lack of sufficient professional knowledge for the policy makers.

(2) Shortage of business planning.

(3) Insufficiency of legal knowledge of international business

(4) Waste of material and labor.

In addition, differences and similarities between small business in Taiwan and in …

Self-Efficacy And Motivation : An Unexplored Relationship, Elizabeth Angela Dixon

Theses

There is a need for models of motivation which emphasize individual differences. Many studies cited in the literature indicate that differences in personality influence work performance, and the way individuals react to various job stimuli. As such, research efforts should be directed towards examining the interaction between specific personality traits such as self-efficacy and motivation. When studies of this nature are conducted, motivational strategies aimed at improving performance, can be designed with more attention to individual differences.

New Mexico Labor Market Review 09-30-1989, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review was prepared by the New Mexico Department of Labor in cooperation with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for August of 1989. It is a report on the state's employment and economic activity.

Risk Analysis In Economics: An Application To University Finances, William D. Nordhaus

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Although the theory of decision making under uncertainty has been extensively studied for a half century, applications to business applications are relatively rare. This study frames a systematic risk analysis and applies the technique to the finances of private colleges and universities. It begins by constructing budgets for colleges and universities and then analyzes the major economic factors affecting those budgets. It estimates the variability (or unpredictability) associated with each major external variable from historical data and from economic forecasts. The study finds that government-spending risks outweigh all other external stock market, interest rates, inflation, and wage trends. The paper …

Survey Of Methodologies For Valuing Externalities And Public Goods, F. Gregory Hayden

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this report is to explain and evaluate six different methodologies for the valuation of externalities and public goods with respect to natural resources and the ecosystem. The six methodologies are: 1) general systems analysis, 2) the social fabric matrix, 3) direct cost, 4) contingent valuation, 5) travel cost, and 6) the property approach. The explanation and analysis contained in this report intends to determine their applicability to a broad definition of an ecosystem or socioecosystem.

The concept of externalities in the field of economics is essentially a concept formulated to take account of interdependence in a model …

Current Economic Issues In Employee Benefits, Stephen A. Woodbury

Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Filling In The Hollowed-Out Corporation: The Competitive Status Of U.S. Manufacturing, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This paper looks at the status of American manufacturing in 1989, given falling costs to production, improvements in product quality, and a surge in research and development.

New Mexico Labor Market Review 08-31-1989, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review was prepared by the New Mexico Department of Labor in cooperation with U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for July of 1989. It is a report on the state's employment and economic activity.