Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"County business"”.
-
Denton County business community perceptions of virtual education for workforce development
Businesses in Denton County, Texas, are unable to secure the educated workforce necessary to meet present and future employment demands. The focus of this exploratory, qualitative study was to identify perceptions of virtual education as it relates to workforce development. A customized, …
-
Analysis of hotel guest room supply
… data (1980 Census of the Population and County Business Patterns). The hotel employee estimates are used to determine the expected number of hotel guest rooms for a destination location. These estimates were also applied to a third model, inventory shortage, to determine if hotel guest …
-
Dollar Stores and Supermarket Survivability in Non-metropolitan US Communities
… and grocery store closures. Data used included County Business Patterns, Rural Urban Continuum Codes, American Community Survey, and authorized SNAP retailer data. The spatial distance between grocery stores and the number of dollar stores at various radii were calculated. Following the …
-
Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes
… data from the American Community Survey and the County Business Patterns survey, I show that the agglomeration of economic activities reduces the volatility of hours worked. Drawing on Krugman's model, I argue that this implies that labor pooling contributes to agglomeration economies, and helps …
-
Essays on Local Public Finance and Financial Behavior
… first essay examines the relationship between business activity and property taxes using county-level data for the period 1986-2012. This paper uses three alternative variables to measure the business activity, including county annual payroll, county business employment, and the number of …
-
Essays on Entrepreneurship
… concentrations of related industrial firms and business owners' cognitive and non-cognitive traits on their business survival. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the County Business Patterns, I find that incorporated businesses that operate in a location where …
-
Sales Tax Competition: Empirical Business Implications for Policymakers
… by bringing this focus on sales taxes down to county level business data and adds county sales tax rates to the already intensely-covered state sales tax rate. Further, this paper covers all counties within the United States in order to provide better insight into the use and growth of the …