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Marketing Loan Looks Better Than Alternatives In 1999; Grain Storage Considerations For 1999-2000, Donald Peterson, Alan May Oct 1999

Marketing Loan Looks Better Than Alternatives In 1999; Grain Storage Considerations For 1999-2000, Donald Peterson, Alan May

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Farmland Value Relationships Across South Dakota, Larry L. Janssen Jul 1999

Farmland Value Relationships Across South Dakota, Larry L. Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1999, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen Jul 1999

South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1999, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Aggregate Effects In Local Labor Markets Of Supply And Demand Shocks, Timothy J. Bartik Jul 1999

Aggregate Effects In Local Labor Markets Of Supply And Demand Shocks, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or subsidizing private employers to hire the poor. What are the aggregate effects of such policies on wages and unemployment of different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population Survey on state labor markets. The simulations suggest that forcing more disadvantaged persons into the labor market can displace many other persons …


Organic Price Premiums For Grains And Beans Remain High; Grain Outlook, Spring 1999, Thomas L. Dobbs, Jamie L. Pourier, Alan May Apr 1999

Organic Price Premiums For Grains And Beans Remain High; Grain Outlook, Spring 1999, Thomas L. Dobbs, Jamie L. Pourier, Alan May

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


The Economic Impact Of Borgess And Bronson Health Care Systems On Kalamazoo County, George A. Erickcek, Jason M. Preuss Feb 1999

The Economic Impact Of Borgess And Bronson Health Care Systems On Kalamazoo County, George A. Erickcek, Jason M. Preuss

Reports

Borgess Health Alliance and Bronson Healthcare Group play a vital economic role in Kalamazoo County. First, they are major employers in the county. Second, their activities support hundreds of additional jobs in Kalamazoo County as individuals from the county as well as surrounding counties receive tertiary care service from the the two medical providers. Third, they enhance the county's quality of life by providing excellent medical services that are not available in many communities of similar size.


Hogs: 1998 Revisited; Cattle: 1998 Revisited, Gene Murra, Gene Murra Feb 1999

Hogs: 1998 Revisited; Cattle: 1998 Revisited, Gene Murra, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Cash Leasing Alternatives; 1998 In Review -- Dairy, Burton W. Pflueger, Michel Haigh, Donald L. Peterson Jan 1999

Cash Leasing Alternatives; 1998 In Review -- Dairy, Burton W. Pflueger, Michel Haigh, Donald L. Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Global Competition And Community: The Struggle For Social Justice, Donna Chollett Jan 1999

Global Competition And Community: The Struggle For Social Justice, Donna Chollett

Anthropology Publications

The above two quotations embody disparate worldviews with regard to the neoliberal project that has enveloped much of Latin America in the past decade. Globalization intensifies the region's integration into the world economy through neoliberal reforms such as market opening, privatizations, and rationalization of production. These reforms are transforming rural societies, raising important questions concerning policies that selectively favor new strategies for capital investment and production oriented toward market expansion, as they marginalize surplus workers and "inefficient" forms of production. This paper contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the contradictions brought about by globalization and local people's struggles to …


Murder, Nonnegligent Manslaughter, And Spatial Autocorrelation In Mid-South Counties, F Carson Mencken Jan 1999

Murder, Nonnegligent Manslaughter, And Spatial Autocorrelation In Mid-South Counties, F Carson Mencken

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

In this paper we explore to what extent murder and violent crime rates in the mid-South are spatially autocorrelated with a variety of county-level spatial association measures. The analysis shows that while statistically the murder and violent crime rates in the mid-Southern counties are spatialy associated, the degree of clustering among these counties is minimal-especially when compared to clustering among the significant predictors of violent crime (percent black, female headed households, percent in poverty, etc.). The analysis has important implications as to how county violent crime rates are being modeled.


High School Dropouts: Implications In The Economic Development Of West Virginia, Semoa C. B. De Sousa, Tesfa Gebremedhin Jan 1999

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.


Training Needs Of Affordable Housing Nonprofits: How To Develop “Better Total Management”?, G Stevenson Smith Jan 1999

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 …


Locational Differences In The Underlying Characteristics Of Poverty, Brian Cushing, Buhong Zheng Jan 1999

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 Jan 1999

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 Jan 1999

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 Jan 1999

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 Jan 1999

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 Jan 1999

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 …


Housing Market Study: City Of Lansing, George A. Erickcek, Gove Associates Inc., W.E. Upjohn Institute For Employment Research Jan 1999

Housing Market Study: City Of Lansing, George A. Erickcek, Gove Associates Inc., W.E. Upjohn Institute For Employment Research

Reports

No abstract provided.


Tax Planning And Management Considerations For Farmers In '98, Michel Haigh, Burton Pflueger Dec 1998

Tax Planning And Management Considerations For Farmers In '98, Michel Haigh, Burton Pflueger

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Some Current Issues In Agriculture; Dairy Riding High, But Rougher Times Ahead, Evert Van Der Sluis, Donald Peterson Dec 1998

Some Current Issues In Agriculture; Dairy Riding High, But Rougher Times Ahead, Evert Van Der Sluis, Donald Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Pastoral Resources And Their Management In The Sandstone-Yalgoo-Paynes Find Area, Western Australia, A M E Van Vreeswyk, P. T. Godden Dec 1998

Pastoral Resources And Their Management In The Sandstone-Yalgoo-Paynes Find Area, Western Australia, A M E Van Vreeswyk, P. T. Godden

Agriculture reports

This report covers about 94,700 square kilometres of rangelands in the Sandstone-Yalgoo-Paynes Find area of Western Australia. The area lies within 27°S and 30°S latitudes, and 115°30'E and 120°E longitudes and includes the towns of Sandstone, Yalgoo and Paynes Find. The northern, southern, and eastern limits of the survey area are largely defined by the boundaries of the 1:250,000 scale series map sheets.The western limit is the boundary between the pastoral and agricultural area.


U.S. Farm Policy: Prospects For Crop System Diversity; Proposed Stocker Contract - Cme, Linda M. Dumke, Thomas L. Dobbs, Gene Murra Nov 1998

U.S. Farm Policy: Prospects For Crop System Diversity; Proposed Stocker Contract - Cme, Linda M. Dumke, Thomas L. Dobbs, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Sizing Up The Agricultural Downturn, Donald L. Peterson Oct 1998

Sizing Up The Agricultural Downturn, Donald L. Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Industrial Incentives: Competition Among American States And Cities, Peter S. Fisher, Alan H. Peters Oct 1998

Industrial Incentives: Competition Among American States And Cities, Peter S. Fisher, Alan H. Peters

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Grain Storage And Other Post Harvest Pricing Strategies, Alan May Sep 1998

Grain Storage And Other Post Harvest Pricing Strategies, Alan May

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Soybeans Marketing Patterns In South Dakota And Possible Impacts Of Sd Soybean Processing Plant, Bashir A. Qasmi Aug 1998

Soybeans Marketing Patterns In South Dakota And Possible Impacts Of Sd Soybean Processing Plant, Bashir A. Qasmi

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1998, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen Jul 1998

South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1998, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Sd Swine Industry: Changes Over The Last Five Years; Bfp Futures Offering Above Average Pricing Opportunities, Nicole Klein, Donald Peterson May 1998

Sd Swine Industry: Changes Over The Last Five Years; Bfp Futures Offering Above Average Pricing Opportunities, Nicole Klein, Donald Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Ingham County Economic Development Policy Assessment And Organization Implementation, George A. Erickcek, Gove Associates, Inc., W.E. Upjohn Institute For Employment Research May 1998

Ingham County Economic Development Policy Assessment And Organization Implementation, George A. Erickcek, Gove Associates, Inc., W.E. Upjohn Institute For Employment Research

Reports

This report provides an independent assessment of Ingham County's current economic development policy and offers recommendations on how to make the county's role in economic development more effective.