In the context of four types of unemployment, 23 federally initiated programs spanning six decades are critically surveyed in terms of their effectiveness at reducing unemployment. In addition, this article examines the ongoing policy debates raised by the myriad of programs and the linkage of...

Two common features of natural disasters are intense regional impact and the call immediately after the event to estimate the economic impact of recovery and reconstruction. The broad purpose of this paper is to help fill the gap in the regional science literature that addresses this issue....

Although William Alonso began his illustrious career as an economic equilibrium modeler, he often was critical of formal mathematical models applied in the regional context. Regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models have theoretical characteristics similar to the economic framework...