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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"employment growth"”.
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Classification and Statistical Analysis of Employment Growth in United States Counties
Employment growth is an important economic indicator. It is used to judge the state of the economy and drive major policy decisions. Employment growth is typically examined by analyzing company characteristics and policy initiatives. In this thesis, we engage other types of data at the county level …
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Industrial structure and employment growth in the 1990s in Appalachian counties
Employment growth in the 1990s and its relationship with the initial industrial structure in 1990 are examined in the case of Appalachian counties, after controlling for labor-market conditions and other factors, such as labor mobility, natural amenities, and market size. Spatial exploratory data …
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Exploring the relationship between destination accessibility, cluster formation and employment growth in Kendall Square
… benefits in productivity that arise from high employment density areas when companies operate in the same sector; while cluster theory examines these centers more closely and stresses the importance of relationships among companies, as well as links to input services and employment. Previous …
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Office employment growth analysis in the Boston metropolitan area, focusing on differences among industries
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF WILDERNESS ON POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH IN THE ELEVEN WESTERN STATES
… the role of protected land on population and employment growth in the eleven Western States, which is an important issue in many counties that have high levels of federally owned land. A Carlino and Mills regional adjustment model is used to examine how these land management policies affect …
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF WILDERNESS ON POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH IN THE ELEVEN WESTERN STATES
… the role of protected land on population and employment growth in the eleven Western States, which is an important issue in many counties that have high levels of federally owned land. A Carlino and Mills regional adjustment model is used to examine how these land management policies affect …
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The nursing shortage and its relationship to part time and temporary employment growth : how should unions respond?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Three Essays on Investment Cashflow Sensitivities and Workforce Dynamics in UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
… the negative impact of cashflow uncertainty on employment growth intensifies when SMEs face financing constraints. On the contrary, cashflow uncertainty stimulates investment in tangible assets but starts diminishing as financing constraints become more pronounced. Finally, the third essay shows …
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Three Essays on Forecasting in Nonlinear Models
… forecast the conditional variance of state-level employment growth. A Space-Time Autoregressive (STAR) model is applied to state employment growth to ensure that any measure of volatility in the series is not misdirected as employment movements between neighboring states.
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
… industry turnover is positively associated with employment growth. Furthermore, successful rural areas and towns areas experience stronger employment growth in hospitality, and in the culture industry, respectively. The evidence also indicates that there are large differences in employment growth …
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Did "Pookie" get a green-collar job? : a critical case study on the East Bay Green Corridor's employment goals, activities, and impacts
… wage economic opportunities for those with high employment barriers between 2007 and 2012. By analyzing semi-structured interviews with key informants and green economic development data at regional and urban levels, it provides insight on how EBGC cities tried to influence the distribution of …
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Federal highway spending and economic growth in Appalachia
… in socioeconomic status: per capita income growth, civilian employment growth, and non-farm employment growth.;The data indicates that federal highway spending in Appalachia has little to no effect on increasing socioeconomic status in the region. The most important factor indicating current …
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Examination of the real estate market risk and volatility : focusing on the U.S. office property
… market determinants, which include market size, employment growth, jobs in specific industries, submarket structures and geography. This study finds that geographical land availability and employment growth are significantly important for predicting market volatilities. Market size does not …
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Essays on Tax Increment Financing
… well as, the factors influencing property value growth within TIF districts. The findings show that TIF districts, on average, are located in areas that are more economically disadvantaged than the municipality as a whole. In addition, the results suggest a positive relationship between blight …
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Mispricing income growth : exploring inefficiencies in commercial real estate pricing
… real estate capitalization rates and income growth. The paper includes a cross-sectional analysis of approximately 25 markets in the United States. The paper analyzes apartment and office markets separately, for two different periods of time. Multi-variable regression techniques are used to …
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The correlation between market fundamentals and apartment REIT performance
… (as measured by weighted average rent growth, weighted average employment growth, weighted average stock growth and weighted average excess demand). The objective of this paper is to explain the variance in historical apartment REIT performance based on historical market fundamentals. …
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Intra-Regional Economic Connectivity: The Role of Industry Clusters in Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide
… differences in the annualized county-cluster employment growth rate (2010-2016) exist between connected and not-connected county-clusters overall, in different types of communities (metropolitan, micropolitan, rural adjacent and rural remote) and across types of industry clusters. The results …
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Can the economic impacts of infrastructure projects be predicted? : economic development projects in the Appalachin Mountain Region
… with successful projects, and population and employment growth in project areas. For the purposes of this analysis, I defined successful projects to be those with high job creation and retention impacts within each of three "scale groups" composed of projects with similar public-funding …
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The gendered effects of tariff liberalisation on local labour markets in post-apartheid South Africa
… the effect of tariff liberalisation on regional employment growth, labour adjustment in the manufacturing sector and services sector, and internal migration over a period (1996 to 2011) in which South Africa substantially reduced tariff protection. This was also a period corresponding with low …
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