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Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion
, 2002
"... The phenomenal expansion of Wal-Mart provides a clean case for studying the labor-market effects of increased efficiency. I estimate the effect of Wal-Mart entry on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates an ..."
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in the years immediately following entry is associated with the closing of both small and large retail establishments. At the same time, retail employment in neighboring counties declines by approximately 30 jobs, and wholesale employment in the entered county declines by a similar number.
County Administrator
, 2009
"... were asked to explore opportunities for protecting environmentally sensitive natural riparian areas in Eastern Pima County connected to areas of shallow groundwater and perennial and intermittent streams supporting unique riparian vegetation. Such areas include Sabino Canyon, Tanque Verde Creek, Cie ..."
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are discussed. Finally, an overview is provided of City and County policies and programs that help preserve these water sensitive riparian areas. Over the past century, eastern Pima County has lost significant amounts of riparian vegetation as groundwater levels have declined. The City of Tucson and Pima County
Explaining Differences in Welfare Caseload Declines Across California’s Counties1
, 2002
"... Focusing on welfare policy differences at the county level in California, this paper explores the reasons for the differing declines in welfare recipiency rates across the state’s counties. Using a regression framework, it attempts to isolate the effects of differences in counties ’ economic charact ..."
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Focusing on welfare policy differences at the county level in California, this paper explores the reasons for the differing declines in welfare recipiency rates across the state’s counties. Using a regression framework, it attempts to isolate the effects of differences in counties ’ economic
2005) “Are Banks Really Special? New Evidence from the FDICInduced Failure of Healthy
- Banks,” American Economic Review
"... The FDIC used cross-guarantees in order to close 38 subsidiaries of First RepublicBank Corporation in 1988 and 18 subsidiaries of First City BankCorporation in 1992 when lead banks from each of these Texas-based bank holding companies were declared insolvent. I use this plausibly exogenous failure o ..."
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of otherwise healthy subsidiary banks as a natural experiment in order to study the impact of bank failure on local area real economic activity. The resolution of these institutions was associated with a significant decline in failed bank lending that led to a permanent reduction in real county income of about
County, 1980-2010
"... While conflicts are common in Africa, contextualizing them against the backdrop of globalization calls for new research. This paper focuses on the source of conflict in a rapidly urbanizing rural region in Kenya. Specifically, it looks at globalization and conflict in central Kenya. It links the con ..."
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the conflict in the county of Nyeri to the emergence of Mungiki vigilantes and armed militias by arguing that economic decline occasioned by collapse of cash crop and dairy farming contributed to the intensification of conflict. The paper found out that there is a close relationship between neoliberal economic
Hordaland County Library
"... A year ago Stately grants, earmarked to cover 50 % of operational costs and purchases of mobile libraries in Norway, was proposed to be canceled. An intense lobby resulted in a transfer of operational costs to block grants. Grants towards the purchase of mobile libraries in Norway, no longer exists. ..."
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will survive even fundamental changes within the financial and political framework? By looking into the history of Scandinavian mobile libraries to see what impact library legislation and financing has had on the development (and decline) of the mobile library services it is possible to find some answers. A
DID EARLY DETECTION AND TREATMENT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DECLINE IN ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE MORTALITY? PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE ALAMEDA COUNTY STUDY
"... treatment contribute to the decline In ischemic heart disease mortality? Prospec-tive evidence from the Alameda County Study. Am J Epidemiol 1988;127:1143-54. In a previous study, the authors reported a 45 per cent decline in Ischemic heart disease mortality between cohorts selected to be representa ..."
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treatment contribute to the decline In ischemic heart disease mortality? Prospec-tive evidence from the Alameda County Study. Am J Epidemiol 1988;127:1143-54. In a previous study, the authors reported a 45 per cent decline in Ischemic heart disease mortality between cohorts selected
Factors Associated with the Decline in Cirrhosis Death Rates among Young Adults in Allegheny County,
"... From 1973 to 1985, the age-adjusted death rate from liver cirrhosis (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, code 571) dropped by 62.7 % among adults aged 25-54 years in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The authors investigated factors associated with this decline by verifying cause ..."
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From 1973 to 1985, the age-adjusted death rate from liver cirrhosis (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, code 571) dropped by 62.7 % among adults aged 25-54 years in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The authors investigated factors associated with this decline by verifying
SPE 90212 Application of a New Mechanistic Decline Curve Method to Kern County Oil Fields
"... Abstract Field production data from Kern County acquired from the California state database was analyzed for production decline. A decline curve methodology based on fluid flow mechanisms was used. The model reveals a linear relationship between the oil production rate and the reciprocal of the oil ..."
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Abstract Field production data from Kern County acquired from the California state database was analyzed for production decline. A decline curve methodology based on fluid flow mechanisms was used. The model reveals a linear relationship between the oil production rate and the reciprocal
ORI GIN AL PA PER Orchid (Orchidaceae) decline in the Catoctin Mountains, Frederick County, Maryland as documented
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