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Labour market inefficiency and frictional unemployment in Australia and its States: A stochastic frontier approach
Bodman, PM - 1999
This paper provides estimates of labour market inefficiency and the frictional unemployment rate for Australia and its States over the period January 1978 to December 1997. These estimates are derived from parametric statistical models of employment growth in which technical inefficiencies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448148
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441456
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471365
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Geothermal : Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Whatcom County, Washington.
Lesser, Jonathan A. - 2009
This report estimates the local economic impacts that could be anticipated from the development of a 100 megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant in eastern Whatcom County, Washington, near Mt. Baker, as shown in Figure 1. The study was commissioned by the Bonneville Power Administration to quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436005
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Geothermal : Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Skamania County, Washington.
Lesser, Jonathan A. - 2009
This report estimates the local economic impacts that could be anticipated from the development of a 100 megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant in eastern Skamania County, Washington, near Mt. Adams, as shown in Figure 1. The study was commissioned by the Bonneville Power Administration to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436006
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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards
Grajek, Michał - 2005
standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467122
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Asymmetrische Effekte der Geldpolitik auf die Industrie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - eine Untersuchung auf Branchenebene
Hock, Thorsten - 2003
Die Arbeit setzt sich mit Unterschieden des geldpolitischen Transmissionsprozesses im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland auseinander. Dazu wird der Sektor nach der Systematik der BACH-Datenbank der europäischen Kommission in 10 Branchen eingeteilt. An eine kurze Betrachtung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433722
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429432
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429435
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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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