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Race, Migration, And The Social Welfare System During The 1950s And 1960s: How Research Can Mislead The Public Debate, Brian Cushing

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

A large body of empirical research has concluded that, at least during the 1950s and 1960s, the effect of welfare benefits on migration differed significantly by racial group, with blacks being attracted by and whites repulsed by areas that provided high welfare benefits. This study revisits the issue of racial differences in attractiveness to interregional differences in welfare benefits, using data from the U.S. Census of Population and a simultaneous equation model of state-to-state migration that accounts for a variety of economic, amenity, and spatial factors. In contrast to most previous empirical work, there is no statistically significant evidence that …

Parametric And Non Parametric Testing For Income Convergence, James O. Bukenya, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

This paper examines the degree to which per capita incomes have converged across counties in West Virginia over the last thirty years. The increase in government transfers and, possibly, other government assistance programs would suggest that incomes in spatially dispersed regions/counties within nation-state should become similar over this period. However, the interrelation between business cycles, migration, employment structure and changes in per capita earnings over time reduces this possibility. Comparable county data are obtained for two dissmilar regions: southern and eastern panhandle. The empirical results differ across the different measurement techniques used, but in general, the findings concur with the …

Modeling Migration Effects On Agricultural Lands: A Growth Equilibrium Model, Yohannes G. Hailu, Randall S. Rosenberger

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Growth in population and employment can result in increased demands on agricultural land for non-agricultural uses. This study develops a growth equilibrium model at the county-level for the state of West Virginia. Each growth model is a structural equation model that addresses the endogeneity of population densities and employment densities. Three single-decade models are specified – 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s using a two-stage least squares regression technique. Each model is unique, reflecting changing population and economic structures over time. For West Virginia, our results suggest that jobs follow people. Population density in 1990 was positively related to areas with higher …

Structural Change Of The Chicago Economy: A Temporal Inverse Analysis, Yasuhide Okuyama, Michael Sonis, Geoffrey Hewings

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Earlier study (Sonis and Hewings, 1998) proposed an alternative tool that can assist in exploiting trends and uncovering tendencies in individual sectors or groups of sectors within the context of an economy-wide system of accounts. In this paper, the methodology, Temporal Leontief Inverse Analysis, is applied to a set of annual input-output tables for the Chicago metropolitan economy during the period of 1980-97. The results are compared to the earlier analysis (Hewings et al., 1998, Okuyama et al., 2002a, and Okuyama et al. 2002b) to examine the method and to investigate further the structural changes of the Chicago economy.

Linking Economic Model And Engineering Model: Application Of Sequential Interindustry Model (Sim), Yasuhide Okuyama, Hyunwoo Lim

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

A conventional approach to model the regional economic impacts of a catastrophic disaster has been to employ the results from an engineering model, such as lifeline network model, in an economic model, for example input-output framework or computable general equilibrium model. However, due to the differences in modeling scheme between economic and engineering models, this type of data feed creates problems regarding sensitivity and dynamics of the impacts. In this paper, Sequential Interindustry Model (SIM) is used to disaggregate the process of production chronology to become more sensitive to the changes/damages of economic activities under a disaster situation. SIM is …

A Spatial Logit Association Model For Cluster Detection, Ge Lin

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

In this paper, I propose a logit spatial association model for binary spatial events and develop a scan algorithm to search for spatial associations. I extend the traditional logit model with spatial autocorrelated component so that the model includes not only known risk factors, but also spatially autocorrelated regions as a control or explanatory factor. The case study of West Virginia Lung Cancer shows that the model effectively captures cool and hot spots in lung cancer mortality.

Constructing Us Interregional Sams From Implan Data: Issues And Methods, Randall Jackson

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Many issues arise in the construction of interregional SAMs. In the US, a convenient point of departure is the foundation provided by commodity-by-industry subnational SAMS that can be generated from IMPLAN data. Unfortunately, because the SAMs are generated independently, there is no guarantee of consistency with known national totals. In particular, the sum of IMPLAN generated domestic regional exports across all regions will equal the sum of IMPLAN generated domestic regional imports only by chance. Additionally, while IMPLAN generates total domestic imports and total domestic exports for each region, the analyst must devise an acceptable method for distributing interregional domestic …

Interregion-Occupational Persistence And Dispersion: A Model Of Geographic And Occupational Mobility, Ge Lin, Christiadi

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

This paper represents the first attempt to develop a set of loglinear models that synthesize gravity models of interregional mobility and loglinear models of occupational mobility. The development of the model is progressed from a simple two-way mobility table analysis to a three-way analysis that controls for one aspect of mobility while investigating another and eventually to a four-way analysis that simultaneously assesses the joint effect of occupational and geographic mobility. An example based on data from the 1970 United States census demonstrates that the models can effectively capture the joint effect of occupational and geographic mobility. The results show …

The Economics Of Private Law Harmonization, John Linarelli

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Capacity Utiliz + Shape Of Ac Curve, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Capacity utilization CD: File list [List of files].

• Betancourt, R. R. (n.d.). Review of work patterns and capital utilization: An international comparative study [Review].

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). S-shaped (nonlinear) ULC curve between shifts 1 and 2 [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (2002, October 21). Simulated data to see if our cointegration capacity utilization equation is biased by relative price movements [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (2002, October 23). Eco capacity, capital-capacity ratio, and scale of plant [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (2002, October 23). Trend of cointegration capacity utilization measure vs. …

A History Of Money (Glyn Davies), Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Davies, G. (2002). A history of money: from ancient times to the present day (Monograph excerpts). University of Wales Press. Julian Hodge Bank Limited.
• Sargent, T. J., & Velde, F. R. (1999). The big problem of small change. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, The Ohio State University Press.
• Davies, R., & Davies, G. (1999). A comparative chronology of money: monetary history from ancient times to the present day (Digital timeline printouts). University of Wales Press.
• Shaikh, A. (2002). Money, credit, and banking lecture folder notes (Handwritten folder notes). Anwar Shaikh Papers. Collection of research …

The Cultural Economy Of Dublin, Ellen Hazelkorn, Colm Murphy

Books/Book chapters

This article examines the growth between 1990 to 2000 of the interactive media industry in the Dublin area. In this period it became a world leader in the development of electronic leading companies. The article assesses the role the state played in the development of this cluster.

Handling Competing Values In Ethics, Economics, & Management: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study Of American & Danish Managerial Attitudes, Annemette Kruse Jensen

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This empirical cross-cultural research was conducted to confirm four hypotheses. The hypotheses included: 1) For American managers there will be at least a 0.55 correlation or more among their ethics, economic, and management attitudes; 2) American managers more than Danish managers will tend to emphasize control in their ethics, economic, and management attitudes; 3) Danish managers more than American managers will exhibit emphasis and correlation among Virtue Ethics, Community Capitalism, and Human Relations theories and attitudes; 4) Danish managers more than American managers will exhibit extreme managerial practice attitudes according to the Competing Values Framework. The limits of the research …

Carve-Outs In Workers' Compensation: An Analysis Of The Experience In The California Construction Industry, David I. Levine, Frank Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, Jeffrey S. Petersen, Cristian Echeverria

Upjohn Press

Employers and unions in several states during the 1990s were allowed to "carve out" their own workers' compensation systems. These innovative reforms gave the parties the right to collectively bargain their own systems outside the statutory systems. In addition, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) systems were implemented in order speed the legal process and reduce litigation costs. This book offers an evaluation of the first few years' experience with these organizational reforms in California.

The Cellular Divide: A Comparative Analysis Of Mobile Phone Usage In Spain And The United States, Deborah J. Slezak '02

Honors Projects

The usage of mobile phones has dramatically increased in the past decade, narrowing the boundaries of size, space, and time. It is this "death of distance" that will be the single most important economic force shaping all of society over the next half century. The economic prosperity of the United States has contributed to the increase in this "luxury" telecommunication device, but how can the rapid increase in European countries with lower per capita incomes such as Spain be explained? The purpose of this paper is to examine mobile phone usage and penetration rates in the United States compared to …

Competitive Balance In Sports Leagues: An Introduction, Andrew S. Zimbalist

Economics: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Testing Causality Between Team Performance And Payroll: The Cases Of Major League Baseball And English Soccer, Stephen Hall, Stefan Szymanski, Andrew S. Zimbalist

Economics: Faculty Publications

The link between team payroll and competitive balance plays a central role in the theory of team sports but is seldom investigated empirically. This paper uses data on team payrolls in Major League Baseball between 1980 and 2000 to examine the link and implements Granger causality tests to establish whether the relationship runs from payroll to performance or vice versa. While there is no evidence that causality runs from payroll to performance over the entire sample period, the data shows that the cross section correlation between payroll and performance increased significantly in the 1990s. As a comparison, the paper examines …

A Note On The Local Economic Impact Of Sports Expenditures, John Siegfried, Andrew Zimbalist

Economics: Faculty Publications

Public subsidies for sports stadiums and arenas are often justified as a means to boost the local economy. The argument relies on historical local economic impact multipliers that misrepresent the effect of consumer expenditures on professional sports. Sports expenditures are subject to extraordinary consumer substitution away from other local expenditures, and they suffer unusually large first round leakages from the local economy because, inter alia, players export their earnings to the locale of their permanent residence. This note illustrates the extent of such leakages using information about the permanent residence of players in the National Basketball Association. While 93% of …

Economic Currents: The State Of The State Economy, Alan Clayton-Matthews

Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series

It all seems clear in hindsight: The national recession began last March and the state recession in December 2000. The difference in timing reflects the importance of technology production and the stock market to the Massachusetts economy.

Medical Devices: A Stronghold Of The Commonwealth's Economy, Alan Clayton-Matthews

Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series

We benefit from medical devices throughout our lives: Prenatal development is monitored by ultrasound devices, sports injuries are diagnosed with magnetic resonance imaging and fixed with arthroscopic tools, and heart blockages are cleared with angioplasties and drug-coated stents. Devices include the simple and mundane—eyeglasses and thermometers—and stretch to the boundaries of technology—laser scalpels, needles embedded with microprocessors, MRI machines, and artificial hearts. All are products of the medical device industry. Massachusetts is one of the nation’s leading states in medical device development and production.

Employer Perceptions Of Work Flexibility: Role Of Skills And Wages In Job Performance, Raymond L. Raab, Pradeep Kotamraju, Maureen O'Brien

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A programming approach, data envelopment analysis (DEA), will sort and rank occupations on the basis of maximizing skills required and minimizing that occupation's wage resulting in a set of "hiring" efficiency scores. This procedure improves Borda rankings (rankings based on the average of rankings of the individual components), fixed weight, or subjective weighting schemes. In DEA, the linear programming weights or coefficients are explicitly chosen to maximize the discrimination between the skills and wages. A rank correlation between the efficiency scores and various work and demographic variables is performed. The results show a negative correlation between the wage rate and …

The Transformation Of China's Health Care System And Accounting Methods: Current Reforms And Developments, David Chu, Kolleen Rask

Economics Department Working Papers

This paper is a case study of China’s recent reforms in hospital accounting. We analyze the Chinese health care system in transition to highlight the changing role and nature of accounting services before and after the recent reforms. Prior to reforms, the accounting system provided data solely for government central planning purposes. Reforms were supposed to decentralize hospital decision making, thus signaling a need for a new accounting system that would provide information to managers and resource providers. However, the government continues to maintain control by fixing basic medical service prices at levels below cost while allowing profit margins for …

Attracting Foreign Direct Investment To Latin America, Carlos A. Loredo

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The purpose of the paper is to examine the literature of foreign direct investment to evaluate what factors are determinant to attract inflows of foreign capital to Latin-American and Caribbean countries. The paper focuses on factors such as market size, degree of openness, rule of law, political stability, trade, regional integration, democracy, availability of natural resources, government efficiency, and infrastructure (i.e. energy generation, transportation systems, ports and telecommunication services). The regression results showed that the degree of openness, trade reform, education, market size, and infrastructure are the most important determinants of foreign investment. Based on my analysis, different Latin American …

An Investigation Into The Sources Of Economic Growth Differentials Among Nations, John Roppenecker

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This study was conducted to comprehensively review established growth economics literature, analyze newly revised data sources, and reestimate generally accepted economic growth models using the revised data. Specific findings include the revalidation of the MRW model, discovery of a satisfactory alternative measure of human capital, sensitivity issues when performing Barro-style regressions, and data trends that may have an alarming impact on certain of the growth models.

Reestimation of the MRW model was found to be robust, and satisfactorily explains differences in productivity among nations. Additionally, human capital as measured by the literacy rate of the population was found to be …

A J Julius Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Walker, B. (2002, May 20). Notes on Alexander J. Julius’ student paper on growth, employment, and technology, mentioning Marx and cost-curve models [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Walker, B. (2001, August 24). Comments on Alexander J. Julius’ paper [Unpublished manuscript].

• Julius, A. J. (2001). Long-run growth and endogenous two-dimensional technical change [Unpublished class paper]. Economics 205, The New School for Social Research.

• Walker, B. (2002, May 25). Notes on a basic growth model with exogenous variables and the effects of making them endogenous [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Walker, B. (2001, April 23; rev. 2002, March 13). Notes on the logic …

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Levy Macro Model, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Letter from Dimitri B. Papadimitriou discussing involvement in a modeling project at the Levy Economics Institute (February 7, 2002)

• Letter to Papadimitriou updating him on progress (July 17, 2002)

• Receipt from Speedy Rent a Car

• Email from Papadimitriou regarding project progress (February 11, 2002)

• Handwritten notes from the 12th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on Financial Markets (April 26, 2002)

• Shaikh's work contract for the Levy Economics Institute (February 20, 2002)

• Email from Gennaro Zezza discussing modeling software (February 11, 2002)

• Letter to Papadimitriou expressing interest in the modeling project

• Budget proposal

• Notes and calculations related to …

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Capacity Utilization, Cointegratoin, Kalman Filter, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Tsaliki, P., & Tsoulfidis, L. (1999). Capacity utilization in Greek manufacturing. [Journal], volume, [page range]. [Publisher].

• Shaikh, A. (2002, August 11). Path of capacity under roughly steady growth and technical change [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (2002, July 17). Capacity utilization, cointegration, and the Kalman filter [Unpublished manuscript].

• Godley, W., & Cripps, F. (1983). Macroeconomics. Fontana.

• Kurz, H. D. (1986). “Normal” positions and capital utilisation. Political Economy, volume, [page range]. [Publisher].

• Shaikh, A. (1983, September 28). Capacity utilization: Notes on Gordon C. Winston [Handwritten notes]. …

Aggregate Production Functions Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Folder titled “Aggregate production function paper CEEA, March 15–17, 2002”. (2002, March 15–17). [Unpublished folder]. File folder.

• Shaikh, A. (2002, February 6). Goodwin variables dynamics in actual data (printout with charts and notes) [Unpublished computer printout]. Data output and notes.

• Berglund, P. G. (2002, January 20). Comment on Jesus Felipe and Franklin Fisher’s paper entitled “Aggregation in production functions: What applied economists should know” [Unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2002, February 28). Handwritten notes on simulated data and Fourier series [Unpublished handwritten notes]. Manuscript.

• Documentation for eviews file USACTUALANDSIMULATEDDATA.WF1: Variables and …

The Development Of Private Universities In Kenya, Amadu Jacky Kaba

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Housing First: Documenting The Need For Permanent Supportive Housing, Susan Hertzler Burkholder, Kathryn W. Hexter

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Five years ago, very few people would have believed that it was possible to end homelessness for the most marginalized Americans. Today, the idea that we can end the cycle of homelessness and institutionalization for vulnerable Americans is so mainstream that the Bush administration declared in its 2003 budget proposal that it considers “ending chronic homelessness in the next decade a top objective.” The key to this turnaround in thinking is supportive housing, an approach that is both smart and compassionate” according to a recent editorial in the New York Times. It is a concept that is proving to be …