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The Economic Impact Of Workers' Compensation And Unemployment Insurance Programs On Small Business, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

This report examines the financial impact of workers' compensation and unemployment insurance programs on small and newly established businesses. Based on a survey of 1,194 firms across seven states, the study concludes that a distinct cost and utilization bias exists against small firms in workers' compensation programs. Specifically, smaller and newer businesses pay a significantly higher percentage of their payroll in premiums despite their employees making far less relative use of the program compared to larger, often self-insured corporations.

Energy Development And Government Policy, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The relationship between government policy and energy needs, especially the taxation and regulation of gasoline, is examined.

The Economic Impact Of Workers' Compensation And Unemployment Insurance Programs On Small Business, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

This report evaluates the dual macroeconomic impacts of state-administered workers' compensation and unemployment insurance programs on small and newly established businesses. Utilizing empirical mail-survey data gathered from 1,194 large and small firms across seven distinct states, the study reveals an inequitable financial premium burden and lower program utilization rates facing smaller employers under workers' compensation frameworks, while demonstrating that the relative financial and administrative impacts under unemployment insurance structures are comparatively balanced.

Essays On Sun Yat-Sen And The Economic Development Of Taiwan, Maria Hsia Chang, A. James Gregor

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Our Overloaded Economy: Inflation, Unemployment, And The Crisis In American Capitalism", Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Review of: Wallace C. Peterson. Our Overloaded Economy: Inflation, Unemployment, And The Crisis In American Capitalism. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1982, pp. 228-232, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XVII, March 1983.

A Firm's Bid Price Curve And The Neoclassical Theory Of Production: A Correction And Further Analysis, Yeung-Nan Shieh, C. C. Mai

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Controlling The Uncontrollables: An Examination Of The Capacity Of Congress To Reduce Government Expenditures For Entitlements, David Lawrence Horne

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The State Of The Economy And Animal Welfare, Michael W. Fox

Animal Welfare Collection

An economic depression inevitably means that the under-privileged are compelled to suffer, but the plight of animals during "hard times" is often overlooked. Further, the present administration's budget cuts, and the pro-industry policies expressed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior, in conjunction with the attempted financial emasculation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (responsible for enforcing the Animal Welfare Act), all add insult to injury. Clearly, in such difficult economic times, the needs of people will inevitably take precedence over those of animals. But a society that unconditionally places …

Strategies Of Urban Labor Force Measurement, Barbara Ibrahim

Faculty Book Chapters

This work on urban research strategies in Egypt is the product of several factors. First of all is the challenge, excitement, diversity and stimulation of living in Egyptian cities, Cairo above all. Not only are Egyptian cities rooted in deep antiquity, but they have the richly stratified layers of a host of great civilizations. Modern urban Egypt is immeasurably complex in its own right, but its quite astounding past only adds to its wonderment. Thus, the chief inspiration for this publication is the wealthy cultural and historical context in which these scholars were assembled and where they sought to interpret …

Informal Sector Employment In Egypt, Mahmoud Abdel Fadil

Faculty Book Chapters

This work on urban research strategies in Egypt is the product of several factors. First of all is the challenge, excitement, diversity and stimulation of living in Egyptian cities, Cairo above all. Not only are Egyptian cities rooted in deep antiquity, but they have the richly stratified layers of a host of great civilizations. Modern urban Egypt is immeasurably complex in its own right, but its quite astounding past only adds to its wonderment. Thus, the chief inspiration for this publication is the wealthy cultural and historical context in which these scholars were assembled and where they sought to interpret …

Assessing The Relative Impacts Of Economic Journals, Stan J. Liebowitz, John P. Palmer

Centre for the Economic Analysis of Property Rights. Economics and Law Workshop Papers

No abstract provided.

Capital Gains Taxation In An Economy With An ‘Austrian Sector’, Dan Kovenock, Michael Rothschild

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

This paper examines the effects of a proportional capital gains in an economy with an Austrian sector (with wine and trees) and an ordinary sector. We analyze the effect of capital gains taxation (on both an accrual and a realization basis) on the efficiency with which resources are used within the Austrian sector. Since time is the only input which can be varied in the Austrian sector, this amounts to looking at the effect of capital gains taxation on the harvesting time or selling time of assets. Accrual taxation decreases the selling time of Austrian assets. Realization taxation decreases the …

Government Recurrent Expenditure And Economic Growth In Less Developed Countries, David Lim

Support & Other Units (THEi)

There is not much support in less developed countries for the hypothesis that recurrent government expenditure is seen as consumption and hence more dispensable than capital expenditure. There is little evidence of a secular decline in recurrent expenditure for a group of 54 less developed countries over the period 1965–1973, nor is there strong evidence of greater instability in recurrent expenditure.

Fiscal Incentives And Direct Foreign Investment In Less Developed Countries, David Lim

Support & Other Units (THEi)

This study found no support for the belief by the governments of most less developed countries (LDCs) that the provision of fiscal incentives is necessary to attract direct foreign investment and that the greater the generosity of these incentive programmes the greater would be the level of such investment. What mattered were the presence of natural resources and a proven record of economic performance. The provision of incentives could not compensate for the absence of either of these two factors.

Another Look At Growth And Defense In Less Developed Countries, David Lim

Support & Other Units (THEi)

Using an estimating equation that was devised systematically within an explicit conceptual framework, it shows that defence spending was detrimental to economic growth. Finds regional differences in that the adverse effects were marked in Africa and the Western hemisphere, but absent in Asia, the Middle East, and Southern Europe.

Multiplier Theory Notes + Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Peacock, A. T. (1956). A note on the balanced-budget multiplier. The Economic Journal, 66(262), 361–365
• handwritten notes titled Implications of ZIM for const. net invest (April 13, 1983)
• handwritten notes concerning depreciation and a formal derivation of the revised multiplier theorem
• handwritten notes discussing static equilibrium, dynamic equilibrium, and warranted growth rates
• handwritten notes titled Gross invest & saving Harrodian dynamics... (March 28, 1983)
• handwritten notes concerning the price of production (April 8, 1983)
• handwritten notes concerning the zero investment multiplier, warranted growth rates, and related numerical examples
• handwritten notes outlining topics and demonstration plans
• a …

Pricing And Profits Empitical, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Folder Cover Label Shaikh, A. (1983). Pricing & profit empirical. Department of Economics, New School for Social Research.This item is a label on a cream folder. It organizes research materials examining corporate pricing systems and business profits.
• Published Journal Article with Handwritten Comment Clifton, J. A. (1983). Administered prices in the context of capitalist development. Contributions to Political Economy, 2. Academic Press. This item is a published academic paper about corporate pricing. Dr. Anwar Shaikh added a handwritten note at the top asking where to place the material in his textbook chapters.

The Generalized Theory Of Transfers And Welfare: Bilateral Transfers In A Multilateral World, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Richard A. Brecher, Tatsuo Hatta

Faculty Scholarship

Paul Samuelson's (1952, 1954) classic papers on the transfer problem addressed two separate analytical issues: the "positive" effect of a transfer on the terms of trade; and the welfare effect of the transfer on the donor and the recipient.

Since then, a considerable body of literature has grown up on the positive analysis. While Samuelson (1954) himself had extended the 2 X 2 X 2 free trade analysis to allow for tariffs and transport costs, subsequent writers have analyzed other extensions of the model: for example, to allow for nontraded goods as with leisure in Samuelson (1971); or general nontraded …

Ocs Leasing And Auctions: Incentives And The Performance Of Alternative Bidding Institutions, James W. Cox, R. Mark Isaac, Vernon L. Smith

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

In Watt v. Energy Action Educational Foundation, the Supreme Court rebutted a challenge to the federal government's mix of "nontraditional" outer continental shelflease-auction mechanisms authorized under the 1978 OCS Amendments. The issues of this case addressed here include: the economic intent of the congressional language; incentive properties of various of the authorized auction processes; methodological shortcomings inherent in the implicit congressional directive for field experimentation; and, the usefulness of laboratory experimental economics in answering relevant auction-policy questions. The discussion of experimental economics includes evidence already gained from laboratory experiments relating to hypotheses about auction-market performance

Class Handout Of Article By Eduardo Ochoa, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

Section of the then-unpublished paper by Professor Ochoa, Values, Prices, and Wage-Profit Curves in the U.S. Economy (later published in Cambridge Journal of Economics, 13(3), 1983, pp. 413–429), distributed by Professor Shaikh to his class

Inflation And Taxable Capacity: Some Recent Evidence, Barbara Allison Haney-Powell

Masters Theses

Colin Clark's theory of inflation has had a profound effect on present-day economic theory concerning taxation policy. While his belief that inflation occurred when all tax revenues exceeded 25 percent of national income was rejected by his contemporaries in the 1940's, supply-side economists incorporate Clark's theory into their proposals for curing the unemployment and inflation of the 1970's and 1980's. These proposals gained popular support and resulted in the election of President Ronald Reagan who implemented such proposals. The purpose of this study is to determine the veracity of Clark's theory.

Clark's theory was tested in this study with the …

Towards The Holocaust: The Social And Economic Collapse Of The Weimar Republic, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann

Books

The social system of Weimar Germany has always been controversial. From the start 1Weimar society was characterized by a peculiar fluidity: between 1913 and 1933, the German Reich, commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, was a virtual laboratory of sociocultural experimentation. In the streets of German towns and cities, political armies competed for followers--a process punctuated by assassinations and advertised by street battles embroiling monarchists, imperial militarists, nihilistic war veterans, Communists, Socialists, anarchists, and National Socialists. Parliamentary activity involved about twenty-five political parties whose shifting alliances produced twenty governmental cabinets with an average lifespan of less than nine months.

Microfoundations Of Keynes' Theory Of Competition, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1983, November 23). “Microfoundations” of Marx’s theory of competition (Chick, 1983) [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1983). Notes on Marx and Keynes; single firm ⇒ “monopolist” [Notes interspersed with handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1983, December 13). Principle of profit-maximizing behavior and optimal level of capacity utilization [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Davidson, P. (1962, June). More on the aggregate supply function. The Economic Journal, 72(286), 452–457. Oxford University Press.

• Shaikh, A. (1983, January 25). Consistent plans, rational expectations, and Walras’ law [Typed manuscript with handwritten annotations]. Unpublished …

Determinants Of Female Reentrant Unemployment, Ethel B. Jones

Upjohn Press

Examines the extent that women undergo a spell of unemployment upon reentering the workforce, and the factors that influence such a spell.

Human Resource Implications Of Robotics, H. Allan Hunt, Timothy L. Hunt

Upjohn Press

The authors contend that the introduction of robots into the workplace is simply another stage in the long history of the automation of production, and that the effects will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

Toward A More Open Trade Policy, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Michael C. Munger, Ronald J. Penoyer

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Progress in achieving a healthier and more open trade system can only come from the recognition of the policy shortcomings of all sides. This study includes 8 proposals for breaking trade deadlock, with the U.S. taking the lead in a new approach to achieving freer world markets.

Industry Growth, Labor Compensation, And Labor's Share Of Value Added In Us Manufacturing, 1967-1979, Brian C. Brush, Steven E. Crane

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Information And Coordination" By Axel Leijonhufvud, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Book review. Axel Leijonhufvud. Information and Coordination. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 976-977, in The Economic Journal, Dec. 1982.

Also included are:

The letter sent by Minsky to Donald Winch with the review, and a copy of the review in manuscript with Minsky's corrections.

High Technology Industrial Development In New Mexico, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

This report defines high-technology manufacturing and evaluates its growth parameters, locational requirements, and expansion potential within New Mexico. Prepared by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of New Mexico, the study tracks the state's comparative regional metrics, demonstrating that while New Mexico’s high-tech employment grows faster than the national average, it continues to lag behind neighboring states—thereby requiring targeted policy initiatives, technology spinoffs from national laboratories, and focused educational investments to remain competitive.

Eco 234 Semmler Public Finance, Anwar Shaikh Phd, Willi Semmler Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• Collection includes a flyer for a teach-in titled "The Continuing Crises in Lebanon" dated November 21.

• Handwritten notes by Professor Willi Semmler on Marx and Ricardo.

• Notes on Federal Reserve monetary policy tools.

• Articles from Business Week, including one with “Can the Federal Reserve Control the Quantity of Money” circled (August 24, 1981).

• Handwritten lecture notes from the Public Finance class, Fall 1982.

• Class notes from Economics 235 with Professor Semmler, 1983.

• Chapter from The Quarterly Journal of Economics: Musgrave, R. A. (1939), "The Voluntary Exchange Theory of Public Economy," Vol. 53, Issue 2, p. 213.

• Final exam, …

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