A multiple discriminant model is used to test the pervasive nature of economic dualism in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region (LMDR). Much of the policy discussion by The Delta Commission and the Congressional Delta Caucus has tended to focus on local financial constraints. While bank deposits...

Significant differences in the growth rates of total factor productivity (TFP) exist among states. In this study, the sources of differences in TFP growth, technological change, and average efficiency levels for states in the period 1977-86 are identified. Rather than focusing on just the...

Sources of wage differential between native and all immigrant, Asian, European, and Latin American workers are examined by estimating hedonic wage equations and employing wage differential decomposition methodology. In addition the extent of interregional differences in such differential is...