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Economics: Recent submissions
Now showing items 301-320 of 354
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The Final Utility of Speculation on the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade
(University of Kansas, 1912-02) -
The CAPM and the High Frequency Trading: Will the CAPM hold good under the impact of high-frequency trading?
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible relationship between the Capital Asset Pricing Model - CAPM and the prevailing High Frequency Trading (HFT) method of stocks trading and to explain the relationship ... -
Some Proposed Experiments Relating to Taxation
(University of Kansas, 1887) -
An Evaluation of Skilled Immigration in the United States
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-22)This dissertation examines skilled immigration in the context of labor and health economics. The research focuses on the high-skilled labor market, whereas previous studies either treat all immigrants as a homogeneous group ... -
How Heavy? Assessing the Burden of Taxation in Kansas
(Policy Research Institute, The University of Kansas, 2004) -
The Costs and Benefits of Growth: Lawrence, Kansas, 1990-2003
(Policy Research Institute, The University of Kansas, 2005)Since 1990 employment in the city of Lawrence, Kansas has grown by 34 percent, nearly three times as fast as the state as a whole. Such rapid growth both creates economic benefits for residents and increases the cost of ... -
Consumer Demand for Digital Video Products
(Policy Research Institute, The University of Kansas, 2001) -
Thinking About the Future: Education and Training Needs for the Workforce of the Future
(Policy Research Institute, The University of Kansas, 2002) -
Bifurcation Analysis of Open Economy New Keynesian Models
(University of Kansas, 2011-03-09)In this study, we first review the bifurcation phenomena in dynamic economic systems and point out the importance of bifurcations together with a summary of the common types of bifurcations which have been encountered in ... -
Bifurcation Analysis of Zellner's Marshallian Macroeconomic Model
(University of Kansas, 2011-02-03)The Marshallian Macroeconomic Model (MMM) developed by Veloce and Zellner (1985} provides a novel way to study sectoral dynamics of an economy in the presence of a dynamic entry/exit equation. Later extended by Zellner and ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON CHILD HEALTH AND SKILL FORMATION
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-27)This dissertation attempts to add to the scholarly literature on parental investments in children. In particular, these essays study a number of ways in which children use their time, and the potential influence of such ... -
Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: U.S. Labor Markets after the Civil War
(Duke University Press, 1994) -
The Extent of the Labor market in the United States, 1870-1914
(Duke University Press, 1998) -
Anglo American Technological Differences in Small Arms Manufacturing
(MIT Press, 1993) -
Is Wage Rate Dispersion a Good Index of Labor Market Integration? A Comment on Rothenberg
(Cambridge University Press, 1989-03) -
Labor Market Institutions and the Geographic Integration of Labor Markets in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
(Cambridge University Press, 1990-06) -
One Market or Many? Labor Market Integration in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
(Cambridge University Press, 1990)This article examines the geographic integration of U.S. labor markets from 1870 to 1898, using previously unexploited wage and price data for 23 occupations in 12 major cities. In contrast to the increasing nationalization ... -
Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The U.S. in 1890
(Cambridge University Press, 1991-06)When labor markets are subject to large demand or supply shocks, as was the case in the late nineteenth-century United States, geographic wage differentials may not be an accurate index of market integration. This article ... -
Was There a National Labor Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century? New Evidence on Earnings in Manufacturing
(Cambridge University Press, 1996-09)Average annual earnings calculated from the census of manufactures are used to extend previous research on labor market integration in the United States. In contrast to earlier research examining occupational wage rates, ... -
Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881-1894
(Cambridge University Press, 1998-03)Using data from a sample of over 2,000 individual strikes in the United States from 1881 to 1894 this article examines geographic, industrial, and temporal variations in the use of strikebreakers and the sources from ...