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ABSTRACT Amidst dwindling state funding and the legislative withdrawal from public university research support, a heightened political process shapes the allocation of scarce tax dollars. This article explores how advocacy within the political process influences funding support for higher education from state legislatures.
Gregory M. Perry+2 more
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence
One of the most important reasons for international migration is unemployment, along with economic concerns. Domestic and international migration movements generally take place from regions with high unemployment to the regions where unemployment is low.
Ahmet Tayfur Akcan+3 more
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In 1999, the European Union decided to go one step further and started the proc- ess of replacing national currencies with one common currency, called the Euro. Only eleven countries participated at the start; since then, six more have joined.
Amelia Georgiana Boncea
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Development of the rate of employment and unemployment of males and females in countries of EU15
The paper is focused on the evaluation the rates of employment and unemployment of women, men and as a whole in countries of EU15. Rates of employment were evaluated in the period 1993–2002.
Milan Palát, Jan Klíma
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Male unemployment in Britain has risen from around 2 per cent in the 1950s to around 17 per cent in 1985 (see Figure 1). (The figures are for male unemployment because there is no consistent series for women.1) Even more remarkably, unemployment has fallen in only three years out of the last twenty (1973, 1978 and 1979).
Layard, Richard, Nickell, Stephen
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Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982? [PDF]
In 1982, the United States experienced the highest annual unemployment rate since the Great Depression -- 9.7 percent. In principle, that rate is directly comparable to the 8.1 percent seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2009, and suggests
Dean Baker, John Schmitt
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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach+5 more
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The Structure of Unemployment in Poland and the European Union Between 2000 and 2012
This paper has two main objectives. The first is to show changes in the levels of unemployment and unemployment rates in Poland and other European Union countries and to explain why the Polish rates are relatively high.
Walentyna Kwiatkowska
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Structural rate of unemployment, hysteresis, human capital, and macroeconomic data
The relationship between the unemployment rate and the evolution of human capital is different depending on whether one subscribes to a neoclassical logic or to a hysteresis theory. This paper proposes that when the unemployment rate reaches a high level
Jean-Marie Le Page
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