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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : A Comparative Study of Opinion in the USA, Canada and Mexico

Hernandez, Teresa; McGee, Robert W. - 2014

This study compares the views on bribe taking of sample populations in the USA, Canada and Mexico. More than a dozen demographic variables are also examined to determine whether differences exist between or among subgroups. The survey found that most demographic variables showed significant...

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Attitudes Toward Accepting a Bribe : A Longitudinal Study of the USA

Hernandez, Teresa; McGee, Robert W. - 2014

This study examined the changing attitudes in the United States on the ethics of accepting a bribe. The study used data gathered as part of the Human Values surveys for 1981 and 2006 in the United States. The study found that opposition to bribery declined over time. Several demographic...

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The Ethics of Tax Evasion : A Survey of Chinese Business Students in USA and China

McGee, Robert W.; Salimi, Anwar Y. - 2018

Tax evasion has existed historically. The present study lists rationalizations for tax evasion in a survey consisting of 18 questions. This survey has been used in the past including a survey of business students in China by McGee, Yoon and Li (2015). The present study surveys Chinese business...

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Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982?

Schmitt, John; Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

1982, the US population was substantially younger than it is today. Even in an otherwise identical economy, we would expect … a younger population to have a higher unemployment rate than an older population would. The second difference is … statistical. The main government survey used to measure the unemployment rate – the Current Population Survey (CPS) reaches a …

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KNOWLEDGE-BASED LABOR PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS: CANADA CASE STUDY, 1961-2004

KHAZABI, Massoud; FALLAHI, F. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 8 (2008) 1, pp. 98-106

This paper examines the importance of Research and Development activities as a source of growth in labor productivity in the Canadian economy within last four decades. Time series data are used to develop an econometrics model that captures the interaction between labor productivity and R&D,...

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The Adult Recession: Age-Adjusted Unemployment at Post-War Highs

Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

. After adjusting for the aging of the population since the early 1980s, the current labor-market downturn has resulted in …

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Modeling Real GDP Per Capita in the USA : Cointegration Test

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg; Dolinskaya, Svetlana - 2007

A two-component model for the evolution of real GDP per capita in the USA is presented and tested. The first component … of the GDP growth rate represents an economic trend and is inversely proportional to the attained level of real GDP per … between the growth rate of real GDP per capita and the number of 9-year-olds in the USA is tested for cointegration. For …

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Modelling real GDP per capita in the USA: cointegration test

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg; Dolinskaya, Svetlana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Heterogeneous convergence

Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013

We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.

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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth

Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008

We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...

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