Journal Article
Identifying amenity and productivity cities using wage and rent differentials
Beeson, Patricia E.; Eberts, Randall W. (1987-07)
An explanation of how regional wage and rent differentials can be used to classify metropolitan areas according to their amenity and productivity characteristics.
Economic Review , Issue Q III , Pages 16-25

Working Paper
Wagner's hypothesis: a local perspective
Gronberg, Timothy J.; Eberts, Randall W. (1992)
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 ...
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9202

Journal Article
Do the earnings of manufacturing and service workers grow at the same rate over their careers?
Groshen, Erica L.; Eberts, Randall W. (1988-10)
A study indicating that service workers begin employment at a lower wage than comparable manufacturing workers, and then experience similar wage growth.
Economic Review , Volume 24 , Issue Q IV , Pages 2-10

Journal Article
Accounting for the recent divergence in regional wage differentials
Eberts, Randall W. (1989-07)
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.
Economic Review , Volume 25 , Issue Q III , Pages 14-26

Journal Article
Metropolitan wage differentials: can Cleveland still compete?
Stone, Joe A.; Eberts, Randall W. (1986-04)
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.
Economic Review , Issue Q II , Pages 2-8

Working Paper
Estimating the contribution of urban public infrastructure to regional growth
Eberts, Randall W. (1986)
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.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 8610

Conference Paper
Structural changes in U.S. labor markets: causes and consequences: proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, October 1989
Groshen, Erica L.; Eberts, Randall W. (1991)
Proceedings

Conference Paper
Structural changes in U.S. labor markets: causes and consequences : proceedings of a conference held October 1989
Groshen, Erica L.; Eberts, Randall W. (1989)
Proceedings

Journal Article
Employment creation and destruction: an analytical review
Montgomery, Edward; Eberts, Randall W. (1994-07)
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.
Economic Review , Volume 30 , Issue Q III , Pages 14-26

Journal Article
Can R&D be the RX for the midwest?
Melkers, Julia; Eberts, Randall W. (1990-01)
A discussion of the reasons for, and effects of, lower overall R&D spending by Midwest firms as compared to East and West Coast firms, with a comparative analysis of the influence of the shortfall on sales and regional economic growth.
Economic Commentary , Issue Jan