This paper develops a model that allows for a direct assessment of the relationship between economic growth and a wide selection of variables in the literature including the size of government. The model is estimated using time-series data f or the period 1972-1986 for the small economy of...

The main focus of this paper is to investigate the impact of interstate variations of skilled labor shortages on manufacturing productivity for the period 1977 to l992. We conduct the analysis for a mixed set of two-digit manufacturing industries across a sample of forty-eight United States to...