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lines. Numerous maps illustrate the changing geography of the North American freight rail industry. …
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The oft-observed inverse relationship between economic activity in the formal or informal sector and levels of fertility is attributed to the opportunity costs of reproduction. The economic and social policies that initiate and maintain the substantial flow of federal transfer payments to the...
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carefully. Standard theory assumes that when firms decentralize, firms located away from the Central Business District (CBD … of capital, a complimentary factor of production. I show that the wage gradient posited by standard urban theory breaks …
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Virginiaâs temperate climate is suitable for several mosquito species capable of transmitting pathogens to humans. In southwest Virginia, La Crosse encephalitis and West Nile fever are most prominent. The objective of this research, which uses the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a theoretical...
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share of housing activity. • The proportion of home buyers having three times the median family income for their geography …
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does. For a company to succeed, it must have sustainable competitive advantages in seven key areas: geography, products and …
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Input users and producers seek to increase their profitability by locating near each other. This self-reinforcing relationship between input producers and users can be views as a basic agglomeration force to enable the modeling of agglomeration economies based on a standard monopolistic...
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Traditional theory of international trade has been developed on the assumption of homogeneous country in which … whether the main conclusions of the theory are critically affected if we relax the assumption. Speaking in the most general … the patterns predicted by the comparative advantage theory. In particular, relevancy of the Rybczynski, the Stolper …
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This dissertation focuses on two topics that are important to regional economists. The first is the development of a hybrid method for input-output table compilation which distinguishes between economic relationships that need to be surveyed and those that can be obtained by other means. The...
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Where there was a settled political geography of state power and responsibilities, the remarkable growth of global …
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