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Hoffnungen auf Zusammenarbeit zerstört und die Arktis zu einem Thema der Sicherheitspolitik gemacht. Alaska steht als der … muss. Zuletzt entdeckte die US-Küstenwache im September 2022 chinesische und russische Kriegsschiffe vor Alaska. Derzeit …
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a security policy issue. Alaska, as the northernmost American state, is naturally at the centre of US Arctic policy … Guard (USCG) detected Chinese and Russian warships off Alaska. Currently, only one US icebreaker is continuously available …. Alaska is also the very same US state that the recent Chinese spy balloon flew over, which was eventually shot down in …
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higher. Thus, we investigated the factors affecting residential electricity consumption in Hawaii; particular emphasis was … dwelling type, life style and household size. Further comparison of the residential electricity consumption of Hawaii with …. However, unlike Hawaii, reduction in residential electricity usage translates into cost savings in other states. The results …
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mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii … voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …
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The Survey of Employer Training Needs in Hawaii was undertaken to gather information and data on the needs and … preferences of employers in Hawaii regarding government assistance with training. The need for such information was created by … passage of Act 68, Session Laws of Hawaii 1991, which created the Hawaii Employment and Training Fund "to assist employers and …
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Many researchers and economists have argued that competitiveness studies conducted by WEF and IMD, show limitations in small-economies, even more when they have different characteristics. The objective of this research is to study the competitiveness of three small-economies: Puerto Rico, Costa...
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Although a direct relationship among partial withdrawals (Ws), GPA and grade inflation (GI) is suggested in prior research, this study demonstrates just the opposite. Evidence from a detailed panel-data comprising 34,426 sections offered in the UPR-Bayamón during 36 consecutive terms...
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Revisiting research from the 1990s from Castillo-Freeman and Krueger, I use the synthetic control method of Abadie et al. to estimate the impact of the most recent increase in the federal minimum wage on employment in Puerto Rico. I estimate that the employment/population ratio of various groups...
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We study Puerto Rico's experience after the severe hurricane season of 2017 to better understand how extreme weather disasters affect bank stability and their ability to lend. Despite the devastation wrought by two category 5 hurricanes in a single month, we find relatively modest and transitory...
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Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...
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