Minnesota economic indicators include a wide variety of current statistical series prepared in various state and federal agencies and reported periodically in agency publications. The focus of this report is the organization of the various statistical series into a set of state and local...

This report presents a review of input-output methods for labor market analysis in Minnesota. For the computational examples, 1972 U.S. and Minnesota input-output tables were used, including employment and income statistics from U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Bureau of Department of Labor.

In this paper, we describe the modeling of a resource-dependent economy, namely, Southeast Alaska, in monitoring the impact of federal, state and local government taxing and spending activities on the region. An important part of the modeling effort is construction of a readily accessible...

In this paper, we focus upon information needs for implementing public programs of resource use and control. Economic models for producing the needed data are presented as activity components of an extensive computer modeling capability. The activity components are building blocks in the...

The Report projects quarterly production and stock levels for the Minnesota and U.S. iron mining industry to the year 2000. Projections of Minnesota's iron industry employment are subsequently derived from the production forecasts. Ordinary least squares regression techniques are used to analyze...