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In Texas during the 1980s, service-sector employment rose, goods-sector employment declined, and the average real wage … Texas during the 1980s. Slow wage growth primarily resulted from weak wage expansion in both the goods and service sectors …
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The Texas Industrial Production Index (TIPI) measures the output of the manufacturing, mining, and utility sectors of … the Texas economy. These sectors are of special interest because of their sensitivity to business cycles and because of … the size (albeit declining) of the Texas mining sector. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has published TIPI since 1958 …
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Texas industry employment. They find that while a few industries are moderately sensitive to interest rate movements, most … Texas industries are insensitive to changes in real interest rates. Moreover, they find that Texas total nonagricultural … influence the composition of Texas employment rather than its level. …
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New composite indexes presented in this article could prove useful in analyzing and forecasting the Mexican economy. Keith Phillips, Lucinda Vargas, and Victor Zarnowitz present composite indexes of leading and coincident indexes for Mexico. In constructing the indexes, the economists use an...
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