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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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The city of Susanville, in response to an unemployment rate exceeding 20 percent and other related community needs, has embarked on a comprehensive effort in community and economic development. To improve the local job market, an effort is underway to enhance the competitive position of the...
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EESS will increase two- to four-fold by 2020, to 220,000 person-years of employment (PYE) (low-growth scenario) or up to …
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examines the nuclear engineering labor market. Trends in employment, new graduates, job openings, and salaries are reviewed as … a basis for understanding the current labor market. This review is then used as a basis for assessing future employment …
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and employment. The previous paper described an economy in which households choose whether to enter the labor and product … markets based on wages and prices. Firms experiment with prices and employment levels to maximize their profits. We developed …-firm economies converge toward the competitive equilibria typified by lower prices and higher output and employment, but also suffer …
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, we develop here a model of production and employment that characterizes dynamics in ways useful toward understanding how … purposes that a single-firm economy converges to the known monopoly equilibrium price, output, and employment levels, while … multiple-firm economies converge toward the competitive equilibria typified by lower prices and higher output and employment …
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The objectives of this study were to evaluate the use of mixed waste paper for the production of ethanol fuels and to review the available conversion technologies, and assess developmental status, current and future cost of production and economics, and the market potential. This report is based...
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This study addresses the issue of the ban on exports of Alaskan crude oil. At present almost all crude oil production from Alaska must be sold in the United States, i.e., it may not be exported. This study examines the impact, mainly on the West Coast, of eliminating this export restraint. The...
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Data reported by domestic nuclear utility companies in their responses to the 1991 and 1992 ``Uranium Industry Annual Survey,`` Form EIA-858, Schedule B ``Uranium Marketing Activities,are provided in response to the requirements in the Energy Policy Act 1992. Data on utility uranium purchases...
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The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (``OPA``) and an even more problematic array of State pollution laws have raised the cost, and risk, of carrying oil into and out of the US. This report, prepared under contract to the US Department of energy`s Office of Domestic and International Policy, examines...
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