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Three Essays on Offshore Outsourcing and Labor Markets.

Park, Joo Youn - 2009

implications of offshore outsourcing. In the first two essays, I use structural models to analyze the size of employment changes … aggregate employment effect is negative. The numerical analysis, however, shows that the negativity of the aggregate effect is … caused by the cleansing effect, and that the employment responses of outsourcers are ambiguous. In the second essay, firms …

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Use of a Help-Wanted Index to Assess Marketplace Demand for Ophthalmologists

Nwanze, Chukwuemeka Chinedu - 2008

Over the 26 year study period a consistent increase in the demand for academic ophthalmologists was noted (34% of HWI in 1980 to 74% in 2005). There was also a consistent increase in the demand for specialists (31% of HWI in 1980 to 80% in 2005), especially demand for retina specialists. There...

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Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Malheur County, Oregon.

Sifford, Alex; Beale, Kasi - 2009

. Employment impacts of geothermal development follow a pattern similar to the economic impacts. Public service impacts include …

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Geothermal : Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Whatcom County, Washington.

Lesser, Jonathan A. - 2009

. Specific impacts may include additional direct employment at the plant, secondary impacts from wage payments being used to …

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Geothermal : Economic Impacts of Geothermal Development in Skamania County, Washington.

Lesser, Jonathan A. - 2009

. Specific impacts may include additional direct employment at the plant, secondary impacts from wage payments being used to …

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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market

Noll, S. - 2009

The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...

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