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High School Dropouts: Implications In The Economic Development Of West Virginia, Semoa C. B. De Sousa, Tesfa Gebremedhin

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

An ordinary least squares (OLS) regression method was used to evaluate the relative importance of high school dropout rates and other economic factors that could explain the economic development in West Virginia, as represented by the employment rates. The empirical results revealed that an increase in the high school dropout rates and the State GDP increased the employment rates while the increase in unemployment compensation decreased employment rates. Thus, the increase in the employment rates may likely be on unskilled and low paying jobs.

Caught Between Scylla And Charybdis: Law & Economics As A Useful Tool For Feminist Legal Theorists , Darren Bush

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Globalization, Migration And Class Struggles: Ngo Mobilization For Filipino Domestic Workers, Lisa Law, Kathy Nadeau

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This paper contributes to post-Marxist discussions on the relevance of class as a social category in a postmodern world. Rather than marginalize this issue of social positioning, the authors explore the relevance of an Althusserian perspective which acknowledges the importance of class as it articulates with other social/identity issues such as gender and ethnicity. The substantive context for this discussion is gendered labor migration from the Philippines, and the advocacy work conducted by Filipino non-government organizations (NGOs) working with migrants in Pacific Rim countries. It focuses on NGOs in Hong Kong and Vancouver, and their efforts to contest the gendered …

The Economic Development And Environment Degradation In China, Fei Luo

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This paper is mainly to present the interrelationship between economic growth and environment pollution in China. The past two decades of drastic economic development in China has caused many environment problems and inflicted great pressure on China’s further development. On the other hand, the deplete of natural resources and damages to environment quality have also cost China a big part of GNP growth and posed threat to Chinese people’s health and living standard.

This paper also illustrates the reasons for China’s current environment condition. It, by employing the theory of Sustainable Development and also analyzing the current global environment, criticizes …

Measuring Health Care Micro-Economic Efficiency: A Case Study Of Massachusetts Hospital's Quality And Value Measurement With Risk Adjustments, Yanling Zhang

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This report has four main parts: 1) Introduction: The healthcare phenomenon, considerations and economic implications; 2) A case study of measuring health care quality and value for methodology investigation; 3) conclusions and 4) policy implications. The principal aim of this report is to discuss methods of measuring microeconomic efficiency in healthcare. In the introduction, economic theories including elasticity, demand and supply, competition, market failure and so on are applied to healthcare. Next the role of this report is placed within the context of organization I worked for with a case study to show how to measure quality and value with …

Courts As Casinos? An Empirical Investigation Of Randomness And Efficiency In Civil Litigation, Evan W. Osborne

Economics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Matthew D. Adler

Faculty Scholarship

Reviewing, Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason (Ruth Chang ed., 1997)

Kentucky Annual Economic Report 1999, Mark C. Berger, Glenn C. Blomquist, Richard W. Furst, Steven N. Allen

Kentucky Annual Economic Report

No abstract provided.

Training Needs Of Affordable Housing Nonprofits: How To Develop “Better Total Management”?, G Stevenson Smith

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

The following report analyzes the data collected from two surveys as that data relates to the training needs of affordable housing non profits (AHN). The first survey was administered in March to nonprofit managers attending a seminar in Charleston. The second survey is a collection of audio taped phone interviews with the executive directors of 28 AHNs conducted in July. The purpose of both surveys was to collect data about the training needs of AHNs in the State of West Virginia. In addition the first survey collected background information about business practices, funding sources, and computer/software usage. Although the first …

Arkansas Gray Fox Fur Price-Harvest Model Revisited, Peta Elsken-Lacy, Amy M. Wilson, Gary A. Heidt, James H. Peck

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Peck and Heidt (1985) proposed a linear model that demonstrated that for gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in Arkansas; total fur harvests from 1966-1982 were highly correlated with mean pelt values. Single variable models using linear regression analysis of current season pelt values (CSPV) and previous season pelt values (PSPV) were designed to predict total fur harvests. These models demonstrated high correlations (r =0.93 and 0.89, respectively). In the past 15 years, markets for fur have undergone many perturbations within Arkansas and overseas resulting in great changes in mean pelt prices. In an attempt to evaluate the continued performance of the …

The Economics Of Wage Discrimination Of Non-Whites From 1960 To 1990, Royal E. Washington

Masters Theses

White people earn more money than non-whites. This is true in most cases even if non-white people perform the same job as white people. Are there reasons for these differences? The purpose of this paper is to discover what those reasons are for the differences in wages and to attempt to discover how much of the difference is really discrimination. Any inequalities that are unexplained may be considered by the author to be discriminatory. Therefore, the hypothesis for this paper is: Income differences between whites and non-whites may be attributed in part to race discrimination.

The statistical method used will …

Uneconomic Growth: In Theory, In Fact, In History, And In Relation To Globalization, Herman E. Daly

Clemens Lecture Series

No abstract provided.

Real Exchange Rates And The International Mobility Of Capital Inbox Shane Wray—Bard College, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1999, February 2). Real exchange rates and the international mobility of capital [Unpublished paper].

Open Eco Macro Soas, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1999, Spring). Folder cover for open eco macro at SOAS [Unpublished folder cover].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Table 3.4: Act. and pred. growth rates from McCombie and Thirlwall (1994, p. 251) [Unpublished chart].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1999, April 27). Handwritten notes for open eco macro: review [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Handwritten notes titled “comparative advantage and HO” [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1993, April 14). Handwritten notes on free trade (Prof. Ernesto Herzberg) and “Mexico: trade, competition, and the XR” [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, …

Perfect Comp + Re, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Perfect comp and re; NA-09-34 [Folder cover]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1999, October 4). Rational competition and p.c. [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1990, May 15). Micro-behavioral assumptions and aggregate identities [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1996, November 17). Rpceffd6.mcd: Simulation tracing the effects of changes in exogenous demand [Software output printout]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1996, December 5). Rpc vs. imperfect competition [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1997, November 14). Pcrcmod1: Simulation of the standard neoclassical macromodel [Software output printout]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, …

Absolute Vs Comparative Advantage Xr Theory, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1988). Absolute vs. comparative advantage XR theory [Unpublished handwritten title page]. Manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1999, December 9). Trade ratio and TOT [Unpublished handwritten notes]. Manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1999, December 10). Handwritten notes on trade deficit and savings referencing Blinder, Godley, Robert Lawrence, Paula Stern, Lester Thurow, C. R. D’Amato, George Becker, Ms. Wissell, and Wayne Angell [Unpublished handwritten notes]. Manuscript.

• Liu, P. C., & Burkett, P. (1995). Instability in short-run adjustments to purchasing power parity: Results for selected Latin American countries [Unpublished manuscript].

• Burkett, P. (1997, January …

Assorted Non-Shaikh 9, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Prasek, R. E. (1995). Toward a “general theory” of market exchange. Journal of Economic Issues, 29(3), 807–828.

• McKibben, B. (1999, October). Kerala, India. National Geographic Traveler, 152–154.

• Identity politics and the left. New Left Review, 38–47.

• Email from Lance Taylor to Anwar Shaikh with subject “Your CEPA proposal” (March 24, 1997).

• Beha, R. (1997). Jungle fever. Fortune Magazine.

• Sevan, E., & Nisanyan, T. A bibliography on imperialism.

• Entries from The Palgrave Dictionary of Economics on Roy Forbes Harrod, Harrod–Domar growth model, and Albert Gailord Hart.

• Cripps, F. (1978). Causes of growth …

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Reading Lists - 1979-1999, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• This collection comprises a variety of syllabi, reading lists, exams, and handouts related to political economy courses, primarily taught by economists such as Anwar Shaikh and colleagues.

• Included materials:

  • Typed reading list and syllabus for GE 104: Historical Foundations of Political Economy I with Shaikh and Milberg (Fall 1999).

  • Syllabus and reading list for Econ 107: Introduction to Political Economy II with Katherine Kazanas (Spring 1999).

  • Reading lists for Econ 210S with Shaikh (Fall 1996 and Fall 1997).

  • Reading list for Econ 251: International Trade II with Shaikh (Spring 1979).

  • Reading list for a seminar titled Theories of Reproduction, Accumulation, …

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Openness, Convergence, And Economic Growth In Asian Economies, Lih-Jen Lin

Masters Theses

Openness offers countries opportunities to trade with the outside world, and stimulates growth through easier access to new technologies and skills. In order to verify the effects of openness on economic growth in Asian economies, this study uses the ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP, and the ratio of the sum of imports and exports to GDP as proxies of openness.

This study begins with the hypothesis that opening domestic markets will have a significant positive impact on Asian economic growth, and the lower the starting level of real per capita GDP, relative to the long-term position, the faster …

V-N Ray 5-99, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1999, March 14). Notes on Pasinetti and the Von Neumann ray: Balanced and unbalanced growth [Handwritten manuscript]. Anwar Shaikh, PhD, personal archives.

• Shaikh, A. (1999, February 10). Notes on the Von Neumann ray incorporating government spending, taxes, exports, and imports [Handwritten manuscript]. Anwar Shaikh, PhD, personal archives.

Preference For Information And Dynamic Consistency, Simon Grant, Atsushi Kajii, Ben Polak

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a dynamically consistent agent always to prefer more informative signals (in single-agent problems). These conditions do not imply recursivity, reduction or independence. We provide a simple definition of dynamically consistent behavior, and we discuss whether an intrinsic information lover (say, an anxious person) is likely to be dynamically consistent.

Locational Differences In The Underlying Characteristics Of Poverty, Brian Cushing, Buhong Zheng

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

We explore how poverty differs between urban and rural areas and among U.S. regions, using metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan to proxy urban versus rural. Our study focuses on social and demographic characteristics, rather than economic characteristics. We are concerned with which personal characteristics appear to increase the risk of poverty, regardless of whether these characteristics manifest themselves through unemployment, low-wage employment, or some other economic problem that ultimately leads to poverty. Using data for the working-age population from the one percent Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, we find significant differences in predictors of …

The Origins Of Devolution: A Speculative Note, Scott Loveridge

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Why is devolution gaining strength both in the United States and in other highly developed countries? This note looks at broad social and economic trends that may be contributing to the movement toward more local control of government operations. Among the points discussed are: the end of the cold war; the information age, the booming economy, the increasing globalization of the economy, the rise of the south; and society’s increased understanding of environmental issues. A concluding section comments on what it all means for regional scientists.

Locating Gender In Rural Economic Networks, Ann M. Oberhauser

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

In recent decades, increasing entrepreneurial activities among women have contributed to shifting livelihood strategies at the household, community, and regional scales. In this paper I examine home based work in an economic network to highlight the intersection of gender and economic practices in rural Appalachia. The research demonstrates that these livelihood strategies both construct and are shaped by dynamic material conditions and social processes in place. Economic restructuring in the central Appalachian region has led to the reworking of economic strategies, despite a continued reliance by households on homework and informal activities. The case study for this project as an …

A Multi-Sector Export Base Model Of Long-Run Regional Economic Growth, Brian Lego, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Brian Cushing

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

The relationships between intersectoral export and local employment and regional economic growth are analyzed in a long-run equilibrium framework. Dynamic location quotients decompose regional employment into export and local components for multiple sectors. Johansen’s Full-Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) approach is used to identify the existence and resultant rank of the co-integrating relationship between sectoral export and local employment in West Virginia’s four metropolitan areas. Empirical results indicate inter-sectoral basic and non-basic employment form a co-integrating system of equations. Furthermore, this analysis shows that inter-sector shocks to local and export employment may cause multipliers to be positive or negative in magnitude.

Using Gis To Identify High Value Areas In Large Coal Resources, Thomas F. Torries, Jeffrey Kern

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Identifying high value areas of unmined coal when large quantities of coal are available relative to annual markets is difficult because of the uncertainty of when the coal is to be mined. A GIS based methodology developed to value reserve coal in a producing coal region for the purpose of ad valorem taxation also identifies high value areas for mining investment. The methodology is unique in that it accounts for most mining, environmental, and market factors to determine when specific properties are to be mined The methodology and database are useful for directing regional exploration and acquisition activities toward most …

Measuring The Impacts Of Health Care On Rural Counties: Hospitals And Clinics In Preston County, Alyse Schrecongost

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Quality health care systems are important to a community’s health interests, but they also play an important role in a community’s economic vitality. This paper reviews some
contemporary challenges facing rural health care systems due to changes in the health care industry, the health insurance industry, the national economy, and reforms of social benefit
programs. Using Preston County, West Virginia as a case study, the paper illustrates the link between rural economic vitality and quality, accessible healthcare systems. Furthermore, this
paper demonstrates the need for active community involvement in local health care decisionmaking processes. It also provides a variety of …

Eco 204 Development Of Labor Process + Implications, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A. (1988, November). Development of labor process and implications (Eco 204) [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Stokes, H. S. (1982, January 10). Japan’s love affair with the robot. The New York Times Magazine. New York, NY, United States: The New York Times Company.

• Shaikh, A. (1986, June). Exploitation [Unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A. (1991, October 23). Theory of technical change (Eco 204) [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (1988, November 30). Labor process: Outline (Eco 204) [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (1987, April 15). “Choice of technique” and the falling rate of …

Fixed Reproducible Tangible Wealth, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Fixed Private Capital, by Legal Form of Organization and Industry, Historical-Cost Valuation, by Bureau of Economic Analysis (1993, January). Fixed Reproducible Tangible Wealth in the United States, 1925–89. U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Fixed Nonresidential Private Capital, by Legal Form of Organization and Major Industry Group, Current-Cost Valuation, by Bureau of Economic Analysis (1999, June 24). Fixed Reproducible Tangible Wealth in the United States, 1925–89. U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Fixed Nonresidential Private Capital, by Legal Form of Organization and Major Industry Group, Constant-Cost Valuation, by Bureau of Economic Analysis (1999, June 24). Fixed …

Internet Resource Management And Pricing, Christopher J. Clark

Theses : Honours

Originally conceived and funded as a research project, the Internet has grown into a commercial, global and integrated service network. This has changed the nature of traffic on the Internet with the increasing use of things like video conferencing and time critical transactions. These forms of Internet usage place high demands on bandwidth. Added to this is the fact that the number of users is increasing at a dramatic rate and shows no signs of slowing. This is leading to a 'tragedy of the commons' where endemic congestion will reduce the value of the Internet to everyone. It also implies …