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Fluctuations and rigidities in local labor markets, part 1: theory and evidence

Clark, Gordon L. - 1983

Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven … to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the patterns of short-run adjustment. Money wages are very stable, being … periodicities in the patterns of residuals derived from trend-line estimates of money wages confirm a supposition that urban …

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The impact of state regulations on the costs of public school construction

Vincent, JM; Monkkonen, PH - 2010

Spending by states and local school districts on school construction has increased dramatically over the last decade, not only because more and higher-quality schools are being built, but also because construction costs have increased by an unprecedented degree. Many states struggle to afford...

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The impact of plant-level resource reallocations and technical progress on U.S. macroeconomic growth.

Petrin, Amil; White, T. Kirk; Reiter, Jerome P. - 2011

reallocations and plant-level technical efficiency changes while allowing in the estimation for 459 different production …

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A two-step estimator for a spatial lag model of counts: Theory, small sample performance and an application.

Lambert, Dayton M.; Brown, Jason P.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - 2010

Several spatial econometric approaches are available to model spatially correlated disturbances in count models, but there are at present no structurally consistent count models incorporating spatial lag autocorrelation. A two-step, limited information maximum likelihood estimator is proposed to...

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The impact of forest service litigation success on administrative appeals of proposed fuels reduction actions.

Laband, David N.; Hussain, Anwar; González-Cabán, … - 2008

In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). “Factors That Influence...

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Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States.

Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. - 2009

technique known as the graphical estimation (GE) method for estimating FWD QMDs for major forest types across the United States …. Results indicate that the GE method, along with adaptations proposed in this study, allows for rapid estimation of FWD QMDs …

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Efficiency effects of agricultural economics research in the United States.

Schimmelpfennig, David E.; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; … - 2006

Allocations of research funds across programs are often made for efficiency reasons. Social science research is shown to have small, lagged but significant effects on U.S. agricultural efficiency when public agricultural R&D and extension are simultaneously taken into account. Farm management...

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Meeting market demand in the organic sector: Handler-supplier relationships in the face of tight supply.

Dimitri, C.; Oberholtzer, L. - 2009

Periodic shortfalls of organic food have been commonplace in the USA. Shortages, created when demand grows faster than supply, have been exacerbated by relatively slow growth of certified organic farmland (in comparison to growth in retail sales) over the past decade. Organic intermediaries,...

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Price Transmission Asymmetries and Nonlinearities in the International Coffee Supply Chain

Lee, Jun; Gomez, Miguel I. - 2011

transmission from international to retail coffee prices in France, Germany and the United States. We show that ignoring these two … faster during the post-ICA period in France and Germany. Our results suggest that, for these two countries, changes in …

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Gender Equality in Reconciling Work and Childcare in South Korea

Lee, Kook Hee - 2009

procuring full remuneration throughout the leave period. However, the mandatory maternity leave system in Germany is not an …

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