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A Note On Interfirm Implications Of Wages And Status, Philip E. Graves, Dwight Lee, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1986

A Note On Interfirm Implications Of Wages And Status, Philip E. Graves, Dwight Lee, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

This paper does not have an abstract, but examines inter-firm implications of some prior explorations into the nature of wages and status by Robert Frank.


A Note On Interfirm Implications Of Wages And Status, Philip E. Graves, Dwight Lee, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1986

A Note On Interfirm Implications Of Wages And Status, Philip E. Graves, Dwight Lee, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

This paper does not have an abstract, but examines inter-firm implications of some prior explorations into the nature of wages and status by Robert Frank.


Regional Choice And Economic History, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1986

Regional Choice And Economic History, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

No abstract provided.


Development, Mobility And Slavery: Real Income And Spatial Equilibrium In The Postbellum South, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1985

Development, Mobility And Slavery: Real Income And Spatial Equilibrium In The Postbellum South, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

The paper lacks an abstract but provides additional insights into why blacks remained in the South for so long following the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the abolition of slavery in the United States.


A Multi-Disciplinary Interpretation Of Migration: Amenity Capitalization In Both Labor And Land Markets, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton, Thomas A. Knapp Jun 1984

A Multi-Disciplinary Interpretation Of Migration: Amenity Capitalization In Both Labor And Land Markets, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton, Thomas A. Knapp

Robert L Sexton

Various disciplines have produced models to explain and predict migration. A model is presented providing a taxonomy through which interdisciplinary insights can be synthesized. The imperfect information view emphasizes the role of wage differentials as representing arbitragible real utility differences. The perfect information approach holds that wage and rent differentials are compensating differentials, eliminating real utility variation over space. Moreover, markets compress diverse aspects of spatial variation in welfare, otherwise difficult to quantify, into compensating wage and rent differentials. Rents tend to capitalize the variation in a host of amenities, thereby substantially reducing the need for a potential migrant to …


A Multi-Disciplinary Interpretation Of Migration: Amenity Capitalization In Both Labor And Land Markets, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton, Thomas A. Knapp Jun 1984

A Multi-Disciplinary Interpretation Of Migration: Amenity Capitalization In Both Labor And Land Markets, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton, Thomas A. Knapp

Robert L Sexton

Various disciplines have produced models to explain and predict migration. A model is presented providing a taxonomy through which interdisciplinary insights can be synthesized. The imperfect information view emphasizes the role of wage differentials as representing arbitragible real utility differences. The perfect information approach holds that wage and rent differentials are compensating differentials, eliminating real utility variation over space. Moreover, markets compress diverse aspects of spatial variation in welfare, otherwise difficult to quantify, into compensating wage and rent differentials. Rents tend to capitalize the variation in a host of amenities, thereby substantially reducing the need for a potential migrant to …


The Effect Of The Alternative Regional Delineations On Historical Interpretation: U.S. Manufacturing In The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1981

The Effect Of The Alternative Regional Delineations On Historical Interpretation: U.S. Manufacturing In The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of The Alternative Regional Delineations On Historical Interpretation: U.S. Manufacturing In The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1981

The Effect Of The Alternative Regional Delineations On Historical Interpretation: U.S. Manufacturing In The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

No abstract provided.


Overurbanization And Its Relation To Economic Growth For Less Developed Countries, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1978

Overurbanization And Its Relation To Economic Growth For Less Developed Countries, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

This paper does not have an abstract but examines the role of urbanization and over-urbanization in economic growth and decline in the developing world.


Overurbanization And Its Relation To Economic Growth For Less Developed Countries, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton Dec 1978

Overurbanization And Its Relation To Economic Growth For Less Developed Countries, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

This paper does not have an abstract but examines the role of urbanization and over-urbanization in economic growth and decline in the developing world.