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Regionalism picks up speed: New England states find common ground
Initiatives crossing northern New England state borders?including Amtrak?s Downeaster service, joint Maine and New Hampshire efforts to save Portsmouth Naval Shipyard jobs, and Northern Forest Center collaborations?suggest regional economic activity is bigger than ever.
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The costs of defense-related layoffs in New England
Since the late 1980s, declines in defense spending have resulted in dramatic employment reductions in defense-related sectors of the economy. Although considerable information exists on the fate of major defense contractors and military bases in New England, little is known about what has happened to laid-off defense workers.> This article reviews the distinctive features of life insurance companies and how they have reshaped their liabilities and restructured their assets in order to cope with the consequences of rising interest rates and increasing competition for savings during the past ...
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Comments on revised New England employment data
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Comments on changes to regional employment data: benchmark revisions and NAICS conversion
This article discusses the impact of two major revisions to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment data made during 2003. The first change, the annual benchmark revisions, anchored data to the 2002 benchmark. These revisions show that job losses in New England over the past two years were more severe than previously reported. Meanwhile, for the first time since the implementation of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system in 1939, all existing industry classifications were redefined as BLS introduced the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to a range of ...