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All three articles in my dissertation gather information from individuals, analyze it, and aggregate that information into forecasts of upcoming events. The motivation is to make forecasts more efficient (accurate and timely), more versatile (provide the most useful information for each...
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capital theory in the 1950s and 1960s. It then turns to several challenges to the limited vision of labor propounded by human … twentieth century. It argues that the "capitalization of labor"--the ideological construction of work as a form of capital …
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This dissertation develops theoretical and econometric models of investment and labor demand in South Africa in order … compliance with racebased labor market policies, and the emergence of "jobless growth" in a period of heightened political and … chapter explores whether political unrest contributes to non-wage "hassle costs" of employing labor that can lead, in a labor …
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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) from Spain made large foreign direct investments (FDIs) in Latin America between 1990 and 2002, making Spain the second largest direct investor in this region since 1998, behind the United States. This dissertation explains the reasons that led Spanish firms to...
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Workers with more education have historically experienced lower unemployment rates than workers with less education. An analysis of recent data, however, indicates that the difference in unemployment rates by educational attainment appears to be shrinking. During the early 1980's recession,...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between divided government and real per capita gross state product in U.S. states using a panel study of data from all of the contiguous U.S. states, except Nebraska, for the period of 1990 to 2007. Some literature can be found on the relationship between...
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If you have ever driven by a street, typically not in a very wealthy neighborhood, where a store front displayed signs with words like "Instant cash!," "No Credit Check," "First loan free," then you likely witnessed the marketing of a product called a payday loan. Payday loans are a form of a...
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