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The Cost Of Home Ownership In Vermont, 1975-1990, Arthur G. Woolf Sep 1992

The Cost Of Home Ownership In Vermont, 1975-1990, Arthur G. Woolf

New England Journal of Public Policy

Housing prices in Vermont, like those in the other New England states, shot up dramatically during the economic boom of the 1980s. This article investigates the causes of that price increase and focuses on the cost of home ownership in Vermont in the years 1975 to 1990. Cost of home ownership is defined as the percentage of family income needed to finance an average-price home. Although prices skyrocketed during the 1980s, the actual cost of home ownership as a percentage of income was about 15 percent greater in 1990 than it was during the mid-1970s. Housing price increases are expected …

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Answering The Arguments Against The Consumption Tax, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1992

Answering The Arguments Against The Consumption Tax, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

By shifting U.S. taxation from income to consumption, more revenue would be generated for the U.S. Treasury. This would also enable the American people to enjoy a higher living standard.

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Strengthening Israel's Economy, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1992

Strengthening Israel's Economy, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The Israeli economy is very socialized and heavily regulated. Because of this, it suffers from slow growth and high inflation. To change this, Israel needs to become much more privatized.

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Pharmaceutical Regulation And Productivity Challenges, Murray L. Weidenbaum Sep 1992

Pharmaceutical Regulation And Productivity Challenges, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

With the costs of pharmaceuticals increasing, steps need to be taken to modernize the approach process in order to reduce the cost of developing new medicines and increase the availability of new and better pharmaceuticals.

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Responding To Foreign Competition: Overcoming Government Barriers, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Harvey S. James Jr Sep 1992

Responding To Foreign Competition: Overcoming Government Barriers, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Harvey S. James Jr

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

For a variety of reasons, governments erect barriers to international trade. In order to survive in the global marketplace, companies, therefore, need to overcome these barriers, whether by exporting, acquiring other firms, or entering strategic alliances with other businesses.

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The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum Jul 1992

The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This piece points out the benefits of taxing consumption instead of income.

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New Economic Policy And Public Enterprises, R K Mishra, R Nandagopal Jun 1992

New Economic Policy And Public Enterprises, R K Mishra, R Nandagopal

IIMB Management Review

Encouraged by the sweeping economic reforms taking place around the world and compelled by its structural economic distortions, India is charting out a new path for its economic development. The country is evolving a New Economic policy (NEP)-to break the vicious circle Of poverty, inequity,unemployment, and slow rate of economic growth. NEP spells out package of reformatory measures in respect of Public Enterprises (PEs) contained in a series of pronouncements incorporated in Budget Documents and Economic Survey for 1991—92 and 1992—93, Industrial policy Reselution Of July 1991, and Letter on Development Policy from the Union Finance Ministe to the World …

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Privatisation, Prasanna Chandra Jun 1992

Privatisation, Prasanna Chandra

IIMB Management Review

The privatisation programmes of various countries have been motivated primarily by a desire to improve efficiency, generate resources, and promote popular capitalism. It has worked reasonably well in countries with well-developed capital markets. There are several models of privatisation with certain costs and benefits associated with them. Meaningful privatisation in India calls for phasing it over a period of time in a well thought out manner and the same has been dealt in detail in this paper.

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The Relationship Between Teacher Salaries And Certain Wealth And Demographics Of Local Indiana School Corporations, Alan Lee Gold May 1992

The Relationship Between Teacher Salaries And Certain Wealth And Demographics Of Local Indiana School Corporations, Alan Lee Gold

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between teacher salaries and certain wealth and demographics of Indiana school corporations. Source data were obtained through the Indiana State Department of Education, the Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners, the Indiana School Board Association, and the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board. Data collected were the teacher salaries, the demographic type, average dai1y memberships (ADM), assessed valuations (AV), General Fund tax rates, and Property Tax Replacement Credit amounts of all Indiana school corporations. The above data were obtained for the calendar years 1988, 1989, and 1990 and teacher salary data for the 1988-89, 1989-90, and …

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The Defense Industrial Base For The 1990s, Murray L. Weidenbaum May 1992

The Defense Industrial Base For The 1990s, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Although the bottom is not about to fall out of the military market, a tough period of belt tightening has begun. The severity of these adjustments will vary based on the size and relationship of businesses to the defense industry. Ultimately, the military procurement process must be reformed. First, by streamlining the rules. Second, by upgrading the caliber of the people involved in the process. And finally, by changing the incentive structure facing the people who produce the equipment.

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Earth Summit, Global Warming, And The Citizen: Economics, Science And Emotion, Murray L. Weidenbaum May 1992

Earth Summit, Global Warming, And The Citizen: Economics, Science And Emotion, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

A barrage of news stories, editorials, and even business advertisements is proclaiming that this is our last chance to save the planet. Examining the evidence for global warming, this paper finds a lack of convincing data to allow any conclusive analysis. Regarding the Earth Summit, it outlines six reasons why the conference is unlikely to achieve its stated goals.

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Congressional Testimony On Helping The Long-Term Unemployed Before The House Committee On Ways And Means, Human Resources Subcommittee, Louis S. Jacobson Apr 1992

Congressional Testimony On Helping The Long-Term Unemployed Before The House Committee On Ways And Means, Human Resources Subcommittee, Louis S. Jacobson

Testimonies

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The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum Apr 1992

The Case For Taxing Consumption, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The governments of most industrialized nations, especially in the European Community, use consumption taxes far more than the United States. Yet a low-saving, slow-growing economy such as the United States would benefit greatly from shifting the national revenue system from taxing income to taxing consumption. That change would provide a powerful incentive to increase the nation's saving and investment and, therefore, economic growth and living standards. This report examines the pros and cons of consumption taxation and also analyzes the major policy alternatives to structuring a new tax of that type.

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"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum Mar 1992

"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Murray Weidenbaum points out that the UN-sponsored Earth Summit bases many of its environmental assertions on unsound scientific research.

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1992

Vol. 15 No. 1 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (1992): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1992

Vol. 15 No. 1 (1992): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Contributors: Vol 15 No. 1, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1992

Contributors: Vol 15 No. 1, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 15 (1992): Pacific Studies Full Issue 1

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Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1992

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 15, No 1 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

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"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum Feb 1992

"Earth Summit": Un Spectacle With A Cast Of Thousands, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Under the guise of cleaning up the environment, the UN sponsored the first-ever "Earth Summit" in June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. The conference, officially titled the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), was estimated to have been the largest conference ever held in the world at the time. UNCED's wide-ranging agenda obscures any real focus for the meeting, which attempted to synthesize economic and environmental globally. Given this unprecedented scope, much of the material leading up to the conference was hysterical, emotionalized, and unscientific in nature.

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Reality Or Illusion: The Importance Of Creaming On Job Placement Rates In Job Training Partnership Act Programs, Kathryn H. Anderson, Richard V. Burkhauser, Jennie E. Raymond Feb 1992

Reality Or Illusion: The Importance Of Creaming On Job Placement Rates In Job Training Partnership Act Programs, Kathryn H. Anderson, Richard V. Burkhauser, Jennie E. Raymond

Center for Policy Research

Critics of the Job Partnership Training Act of 1982 (JTPA) argue that most of its job placement success has been the result of the "creaming" of participants--that is, of serving individuals who are most employable at the expense of those most in need. Using a bivariate probit model of JTPA trainee selection and job placement success, this paper analyzes the selection of JTPA past recipients. It provides a first approximation of the importance of nonrandom selection on job placement rates. Creaming is found to take place within service delivery areas (SDAs), especially with respect to the avoidance of eligible high …

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W(H)Ither The Middle Class? A Dynamic View, Greg J. Duncan, Timothy M, Smeeding, Willard Rodgers Feb 1992

W(H)Ither The Middle Class? A Dynamic View, Greg J. Duncan, Timothy M, Smeeding, Willard Rodgers

Center for Policy Research

A constant theme throughout the history of the U.S. has been the growth of the middle class and the promise of its growth for the elimination of poverty. By the late 1980s, social analysts sensed a decline in the size of the American middle class which later was verified through cross-section analysis of wage and salary and income distribution data. Using time series from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for prime-age males, this study moves beyond verification of the shrinking of the middle class. The analysis examines changes in both income and wealth and finds that wealth increases reinforced …

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How People With Disabilities Fare When Public Policies Change--Past, Present, And Future, Richard V. Burkhauser, Robert H. Haveman, Barbara L. Wolfe Feb 1992

How People With Disabilities Fare When Public Policies Change--Past, Present, And Future, Richard V. Burkhauser, Robert H. Haveman, Barbara L. Wolfe

Center for Policy Research

In this paper the authors analyze the effects of two decades of federal disability policy and macroeconomic fluctuation on the well-being of men with disabilities. Their findings indicate that both have dramatically affected the economic well-being of people with disabilities both absolutely and relative to people without disabilities. Using data from the Current Population Survey (19681988) they find that by 1987 the households of white or well-educated male heads with disabilities had fully recovered from the program cuts and recession of the early 1980s. However, to a large extent this recovery was due to additional earnings by spouses. Alternatively, the …

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Modeling Application For Disability Insurance As A Retirement Decision: A Hazard Model Approach Using Choice-Based Sampling, Richard V. Burkhauser, J.S. Butler, Yang Woo Kim, George A. Slotsve Feb 1992

Modeling Application For Disability Insurance As A Retirement Decision: A Hazard Model Approach Using Choice-Based Sampling, Richard V. Burkhauser, J.S. Butler, Yang Woo Kim, George A. Slotsve

Center for Policy Research

This paper models the decision to apply for Social Security Disability Insurance Benefitsas a special case of a more general dynamic retirement decision model. It uses a multi-state, continuous-time hazard to test the effect of policy variables on the speed at which workers applyfor benefits following the onset of a work limitation. Policy variables are found to matter. A higher expected replacement rate increases the risk of application. This effect is significant in asmall sample of the general population and in a sample which also includes a weighted choice-based sample of disability insurance applicants.

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A Cautionary Tale Of European Disability Policies: Lessons For The United States, Leo Arts, Richard V. Burkhauser, Philip De Jong Feb 1992

A Cautionary Tale Of European Disability Policies: Lessons For The United States, Leo Arts, Richard V. Burkhauser, Philip De Jong

Center for Policy Research

Variations in the size of the population receiving disability payments across countries cannot be explained by simple differences in health. Rather, the process to disability is shaped by both social and medical factors. When governments ignore this reality, a policy generated disability epidemic is possible. This paper compares disability policies in The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. It argues that the extraordinary increase in Dutch disability rolls in the 1970s was caused by a general government policy to reduce official unemployment. And that by the end of the 1980s, this policy had left Holland with a hidden unemployment …

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Small Wars, Big Defense: Living In A World Of Lower Tensions, Murray L. Weidenbaum Feb 1992

Small Wars, Big Defense: Living In A World Of Lower Tensions, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Murray Weidenbaum discusses ways to reduce military spending in the 1990s.

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Disability Or Work: Handicap Policy Choices, Richard V. Burkhauser Feb 1992

Disability Or Work: Handicap Policy Choices, Richard V. Burkhauser

Center for Policy Research

Cross-national comparisons of disability programs and disabled populations show that the social environment workers with handicaps face can be as important as their health in affecting their movement into disability. In this context, Richard Burkhauser reviews American disability policy over the business cycles of the past two decades. He finds that strong economic recovery has, in general, overcome the sharp drop in the well-being of people with handicaps brought on by the recession and the reduction in program benefits in the early 1980s. However, the doubly handicapped, those with both health limitations and poor work skills, have not recovered.

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Industrial Resources: Perry County - Hazard, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1992

Industrial Resources: Perry County - Hazard, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Perry County

"Resources for Economic Development: Hazard, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of research and Planning in cooperation with the Business and Industry Technical Assistance Center of Hazard Community College and the Kentucky River Area Development District, 1992. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

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Industrial Resources: Owen County - Owenton, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1992

Industrial Resources: Owen County - Owenton, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Owen County

"Resources for Economic Development: Owenton, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Owen County Chamber of Commerce and the Owen County Industrial Foundation, 1992. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

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Industrial Resources: Allen County, Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1992

Industrial Resources: Allen County, Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Allen County

"Resources for Economic Development: Scottsville, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning, and the Scottsville - Allen County Industrial Development Authority, 1992. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

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Industrial Resources: Pendleton County - Falmouth And Butler, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 1992

Industrial Resources: Pendleton County - Falmouth And Butler, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Pendleton County

"Resources for Economic Development: Falmouth and Butler, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the City of Falmouth, 1992. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.

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