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The city of Susanville, in response to an unemployment rate exceeding 20 percent and other related community needs, has embarked on a comprehensive effort in community and economic development. To improve the local job market, an effort is underway to enhance the competitive position of the...
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EESS will increase two- to four-fold by 2020, to 220,000 person-years of employment (PYE) (low-growth scenario) or up to …
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The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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examines the nuclear engineering labor market. Trends in employment, new graduates, job openings, and salaries are reviewed as … a basis for understanding the current labor market. This review is then used as a basis for assessing future employment …
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and employment. The previous paper described an economy in which households choose whether to enter the labor and product … markets based on wages and prices. Firms experiment with prices and employment levels to maximize their profits. We developed …-firm economies converge toward the competitive equilibria typified by lower prices and higher output and employment, but also suffer …
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, we develop here a model of production and employment that characterizes dynamics in ways useful toward understanding how … purposes that a single-firm economy converges to the known monopoly equilibrium price, output, and employment levels, while … multiple-firm economies converge toward the competitive equilibria typified by lower prices and higher output and employment …
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Although the neoclassical labor economics literature assumes that hours of work are determined solely on the supply side as a result of individual demand for leisure, and abundance of evidence points to the importance of employer demand factors in the market for hours of work. Despite the appeal...
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