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Identifying amenity and productivity cities using wage and rent differentials
An explanation of how regional wage and rent differentials can be used to classify metropolitan areas according to their amenity and productivity characteristics.
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Wagner's hypothesis: a local perspective
Wagner's hypothesis of an expanding public sector as an economy develops is tested using pooled time-series cross-sectional data for U.S. states from 1964 to 1986. Comparing government size among fiscal jurisdictions within a single nation reduces the problems of data comparability and of controlling for cultural and institutional differences that plague the more common international tests of this theory. Our results are inconsistent with Wagner's hypothesis, yielding a negative relationship between public-sector size and output. However, some empirical support is found in the protective ...
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Do the earnings of manufacturing and service workers grow at the same rate over their careers?
A study indicating that service workers begin employment at a lower wage than comparable manufacturing workers, and then experience similar wage growth.
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Accounting for the recent divergence in regional wage differentials
An explanation of the recent interruption in the long-term trend of regional wage convergence, showing that changes in the value that each census region places on worker characteristics account for much of the shift to wage divergence since 1980.
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Metropolitan wage differentials: can Cleveland still compete?
A look at the Cleveland metropolitan labor market as a point of comparison to highlight how labor costs in a major industrial city fare with respect to other U.S. cities. ; A look at the Cleveland metropolitan labor market as a point of comparison to highlight how labor costs in a major industrial city fare with respect to other U.S. cities.
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Estimating the contribution of urban public infrastructure to regional growth
An estimation of components of public capital stock for 38 metropolitan areas from 1953 to 1981, using the perpetual inventory method. These series are used to estimate the effect of public capital stock on regional manufacturing production.
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Employment creation and destruction: an analytical review
A presentation of some new evidence on differences in the causes of high- and low-frequency movements in employment, focusing on whether the components of cyclical and secular (regional) variations in job growth follow similar patterns.
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Is this really a \\"white-collar recession\\"?
An analysis of whether the economic downturn that began in mid-1990 hit white-collar workers disproportionately hard. The authors examine the issue from several perspectives and find overwhelming evidence to the contrary.