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The US Economic Model at Y2K : Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Welfare Magnet Debate Using the NLSY

Levine, Phillip B. - 1995

This paper examines the extent to which differences in welfare generosity across states leads to interstate migration. Using microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) between 1979 and 1992, we employ a quasi-experimental design that utilizes the categorical eligibility of...

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Spatial Productivity Spillovers from Public Infrastructure : Evidence from State Highways

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1995

Is public sector infrastructure a key determinant of productivity? Traditional, project-based analyses of benefits and costs typically do not find large rates of return. Proponents of infrastructure spending instead point to regression-based analyses of the links between private productivity and...

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State Abortion Rates : The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment

Blank, Rebecca M. - 1994

This paper uses data on abortion rates from 1974-88, to estimate two-stage least squares models with fixed state and year effects. The results indicate that implementing restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion results in lower aggregate abortion rates in-state and higher abortion rates...

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Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1994

Researchers, commentators, and politicians have devoted steadily more attention to infrastructure in response to claims that inadequate accumulation of public capital has contributed to substandard U.S. economic growth. Despite this, the link between infrastructure and productivity growth...

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Propogation of Shocks in a High-Inflation Economy : Israel, 1980-85

Leiderman, Leonardo - 1986

-inflation economy. Do one-time inflationary shocks give rise to long-term persistence, or inertia? Do balance of payments' shocks …

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The Economy of Israel

Fischer, Stanley - 1983

The paper opens with a description of the salient features of the Israeli economy. These consist of a large government … indexation of both wages and long term financial commitments. A descriptive model of the economy is then presented, which … includes the particular asset menu of the Israeli economy, and its properties examined. Finally,the rrodel is used in analyzing …

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