This research analyzes manufacturing growth and decline across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions during the 1972–2002 period. We decompose real value added growth across local labor market areas in the lower 48 U.S. states into contributions from labor, capital, and total factor productivity. We then estimate a model describing the long-run growth of labor, capital, and productivity and ...

This thesis describes a software distribution and maintenance system that reduces administration costs while increasing survivability. Contributions include design, implementation, and analysis. The system applies automation wherever possible and takes maximum advantages of economies of scale. The implementation extends an existing replication tool to provide multiplatform support, user assiste...

The past academic literature on tax policy has focused almost entirely on the analysis of tax structures in the richest countries, particularly the U.S. Overall the optimal tax models explain reasonably well the observed tax policies in these countries. As summarized in Gordon (2000), for example, past theoretical work suggests that taxes on consumption or labor income should dominate use of ca...

This research outlines a distinct gap in the Internet and marketing literature, which has largely ignored small and medium-sized (SME) fashion e-retailers (SMEFEs). This is despite apparel sales playing a key role in the European economy and becoming a significant part of online purchasing. Initial exploratory critical caseresearch, has led to the development of the ‘Web-Weaving’ e-portfolio ma...

in this paper the concept and the definition of the social and economic justice are evaluated considering the views of western and islamic thinkers and theorist and the focus is on the rationality. according to this evaluation, the criteria of economic justice in accordance with the islamic framework are extracted; which are: the equal availability of natural resources for everybody, the determ...

Over the past decade the economies of East Asia and APEC more generally have been increasinglyopening up their markets, and in the process have achieved significant gains in exports and economicgrowth. In conjunction with this increased economic integration, there has been increased recognitionby regional governments of the potential for a substantial increase in the participation by smallbusin...

Services are an increasingly important part of modern economies. They are provided by service processes that are an important subtype of business processes. Therefore, the life cycle used for business processes may also be applied to service processes. However, the properties of service processes and the services provided require to extend the lifecycle of service processes. Therefore, the prop...