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Community-Level Impacts Projection System (CLIPS). Final report
Monts, J.K.; Bareiss, E.R. - 2007
The Community-Level Impacts Projection System includes a set of techniques for providing detailed advance information required for rational planning. The computerized system generates reports which enable the user: to describe the energy development activity in terms of its employment demands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436029
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Tuberculosis transmission patterns in a high-incidence area: A spatial analysis
Munch Z.; Van Lill S.W.P.; Booysen C.N.; Zietsman H.L.; … - 2003
notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442250
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The role of clothing manufacturing co-operatives in job creation and poverty alleviation in Sharpeville / Mmapula Brendah Sekatane
Sekatane, Mmapula Brendah - 2004
Sharpeville. Ttie study focuses on three areas, namely, the theories of unemployment, poverty and clothing manufacturing, the … state of unemployment and poverty in Sharpeville and clothing manufacturing co-operatives as one of the contributors to the … solution to unemployment and poverty. Unemployment is identified, among others, as a major determinant of poverty; therefore …
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Demographic impacts of utility rate designs
Butler, J.; Poyer, D.A. - 2009
Historically, utility customers have been differentiated into various customer classes, based on their utility service demand characteristics. In this paper we argue that greater differentiation, if based on value and cost of service, can be justified on grounds of economic efficiency, and if...
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1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix: Volume 1.
United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2008
This publication provides detailed documentation of the load forecast scenarios and assumptions used in preparing BPA's 1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (the Study). This is one of two technical appendices to the Study; the other appendix details the utility-specific loads and...
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The role of amenities and other factors in influencing the location of nonmanufacturing industry in the United States
Allison, T.; Calzonetti, F.J. - 2008
Consumer and producer services, the latter in particular, are expected to become an important means of diversification and employment growth to the economy of Nevada. It has been suggested that the siting of the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, will lead to a significant...
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Staff policy regarding mitigation of school enrollment impacts
Williams, D.S. - 2007
Testimony in recent geothermal power plant siting cases in the Geysers-Calistoga KGRA has established that nine local school districts have reached or exceeded the design which induces immigration into these impacted districts will aggravate the situation. Several power plant applicants have...
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Public service impacts of geothermal development: cumulative impacts study of the Geysers KGRA. Final staff report
Matthews, K.M. - 2007
The number of workers currently involved in the various aspects of geothermal development in the Geysers are identified. Using two different development scenarios, projections are made for the number of power plants needed to reach the electrical generation capacity of the steam resource in the...
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Essays on the macroeconomics of labor markets
Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010
) studies the relation between taxes and the unemployment rate using the Mortensen and Pissarides search and matching … equilibrium theory of unemployment. The proposed quantitative model with ex-ante worker skill heterogeneity and two technology …
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Three essays on mortality and fertility
Castro, Ruben - 2011
This dissertation contains three different essays, each of them adding conceptually and empirically to the existing literature on mortality and fertility. The first essay explores the role of chronic conditions onto the US educational differences on mortality. It proposes a model to decompose...
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