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by socio-demographic and economic influences, differences between States, or rather by cultural differences between … different regions of the United States. Woodards (2012) differentiation of 10 cultural regions in the USA is used for this …
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Incomplete information regarding the location of job offers, their contractual conditions, and tenure prospects typifies US labor markets. Crises of spatial coordination and the allocation of labor demand and supply, amongst other issues, are argued to result from such uncertainties....
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Spending by states and local school districts on school construction has increased dramatically over the last decade … unprecedented degree. Many states struggle to afford the new schools needed in local communities. The emerging body of academic …, states with all three regulations have construction costs that are roughly 30% higher than states with none of the three …
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Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
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The main objective of the dissertation is to apply recent advances in modern econometric analysis, namely cointegrating Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Bayesian VAR (BVAR) to a small open regional economy like Hawaii. This is accomplished in three related yet independent essays demonstrating how...
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This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa's indigenous systems of slavery on its political and economic development, based on an analytical survey of the literature and data collected from anthropological records. We develop a theory to account for this based on the...
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. Is that because of banks' continued structural power over States? This paper challenges the view that States are sheer …
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interaction between economic decisions and COVID-19 epidemics in five different Brazilian states: São Paulo (SP), Amazonas (AM … differences of each of these states could affect the epidemic dynamics and its consequences. We computed and compared the model … for each of the states, both in competitive equilibrium and under optimal containment policy adoption, and analyzed the …
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Drawing on recent research perspectives, the book discusses how social investment policies could be responsive to territorial inequalities in terms of better policy coordination, capacities, and institutional infrastructures' adaptability to territorial needs. By combining theoretical notions...
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ultimate target.In this thesis factors affecting the adoption of an RPS by U.S. states are investigated.Through statistical …
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