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A model of the employment effects of a local labor tax
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Trade and the Western economy
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Irrigation and water quality
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The 1980s divergence in state per capital incomes: what does it tell us?
During most of this century, state per capita incomes have converged. Researchers generally agree that incomes diverged between 1979 and 1988, but there is no consensus about what caused the divergence. This paper makes two significant contributions to the literature on the 1980s divergence and on the longer-term converging trend within the United States. First, it shows that the 1980s divergence was not primarily due to plunging oil prices, as is commonly argued. Instead, the most important reason for the divergence was a positive shock to some Northeast states, which had an unusually ...
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Assessing regional economic stability: a portfolio approach
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Changing geographical patterns of electronic components activity