Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 270
Cover Image
The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets
Gärtner, Dennis - 2001
A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471673
Cover Image
Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in … market issues established by human capital theory with the general equilibrium-leddebate on trade and the functional … ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471731
Cover Image
Join the Leader, Imitate or Follow: Evolutionary Stable Strategies in the Commons
Schott, Stephan - 2010
"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468354
Cover Image
Agricultural Policy Reform and its Impact on Farm Household Income Inequality.
Mishra, Ashok; El-Osta, Hisham; Shaik, Saleem - 2010
In the United States the 1996 agricultural policy reform ushered in market-oriented farm policies and also gave farmers a seven-year lump-sum payment that was not tied to production. Some scholars argue that farm program payments have changed the distribution of income among farm households. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429553
Cover Image
The Geography of New Manufacturing Technology: Implications for the Nonmetropolitan South.
McGranahan, David A. - 1999
Despite the growth in services. manufacturing remains an essential part of the nonmetropolitan South's economy, responsible for 25 percent of total personal earnings. But loweducation nonmetropolitan areas, which gained more than their share of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, lost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429555
Cover Image
Determinants of economic well-being among U.S. farm operator households.
El-Osta, Hisham S.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Morehart, Mitchell J. - 2007
Participation in government programs has a mild impact on the economic well-being of U.S. farm households. Major factors that determine farm household prosperity are the primary operator's education level and ethnicity, education level of the spouse, and other characteristics such as forward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429566
Cover Image
Technological change, economic growth, and income inequality : MSA evidence from the 1990s.
Lehman, Thomas Eric - 2004
, not increase, household income inequality. In a related vein, this research study seeks to test the theory of an extended … the theory that growth and inequality might both be related to SBTC resulting from structural shifts away from a mature … industrial economy and toward the emerging information and knowledge economy of the 1990s and beyond. This theory, too, must be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429615
Cover Image
Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment
Perotti, Roberto; Alesina, Alberto - 1996
Economics
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432039
Cover Image
14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy, Spring 2006
Angrist, Joshua David - 2006
Theory and evidence concerning the functioning of the labor market. Particular emphasis on the roles played by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432687
Cover Image
Impact of 2001 Building Technology, state and community programs on United States employment and wage income
MJ Scott; DJ Hostick; DB Elliott - 2008
The Department of Energy Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of programs on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model allied In Build is used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436454