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ABSTRACTThe basic premise of this article is that the historic location determinants literature is unduly pessimistic regarding the economic prospects of rural areas. Most historic location research has treated rural areas as homogeneous regions. This study demonstrates that rural counties should be treated as differentiated sets of economic environments rather than as an aggregate. The locational potential of specific industries differs dramatically among differentiated rural regions. When examined in this way, a number of high‐growth industries surface as having development potential under specified rural conditions. In addition this work raises serious questions about the adequacy of product life‐cycle theory (Erickson 1976) and high‐technology filtering‐down theory (Glasmeier 1991) in identifying the variables critical to industrial location. This work indicates that neither small size nor remoteness is as limiting as suggested by earlier r

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00158.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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ABSTRACTIn this paper, the social being in the spatiality of the production process is addressed. Spatiality, following Soja (1989), means the ceaseless and recursive dialectical interplay amongst time, space, and the social being. The production process, as a specific set of social relations, comprises both the tasks associated with productive labor and the regulations that organize the extraction of surplus value. The social being as worker is located within the various sets of power relations in the workplace, and workers as social beings position themselves within and amongst the numerous sets of social relations that are part of the production process. Distributions of power are negotiated through labor and mediated by other sets of social relations in specific places as well as the historical and material conditions of the lives of individual workers and their employment at a firm. This conceptual argument is demonstrated by drawing on information gathered in multiple‐depth interviews with women employed as franchise housekeepers, personal experience as a franchise housekeeper, and structured interviews with managers, owners, and head office personnel in housekeeping services franchise

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00159.x

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年代:1995

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ABSTRACTNonstationary behavior in regional economies must be recognized and categorized before activity indicators can be properly used in analyses. The nonstationary behavior of gross product by one‐digit industry and personal income from all of the 50 states is examined. Tests to discriminate between stochastic and deterministic trends are pursued and the results indicate that the former dominate the latter. State‐nation linkages in the presence of stochastic trends are explored and it is shown that stable, long‐term relationships between nonstationary state and national outputs are rare at both the industry and aggregate l

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00160.x

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年代:1995

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ISSN:0017-4815    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00161.x

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年代:1995

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ABSTRACTThis article conducts a time series cross‐sectional analysis of Latin American countries over the period of 1982–1988; it examines the relationship between regime type (civilian/military) and polity type (democratic/authoritarian) on one hand, and economic growth on the other, taking advantage of a specially designed econometric method and the availability of large economic and political data sets. The conclusion from this study is that the economy grows faster under a civilian government than under a military government, and both political rights and civil liberties contribute to gro

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00162.x

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年代:1995

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ABSTRACTTax Increment Financing (TIF) is a popular yet controversial tool that allows local governments to use property tax revenue to fund the public costs of economic development. Since TIF gives one local government the power to affect the tax bases of the overlapping jurisdictions, there is uncertainty and argument on the part of government officials and taxpayers as to who really finances the program. To evaluate the alternative contentions, this paper presents a general methodology that identifies which taxpayers in which locations fund the TIF's expenditures, and sets forward the conditions under which such a local economic development policy can be beneficial to taxpayers. The paper applies the model to study the TIF program currently active in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The evidence indicates that the taxpayers in the entire metropolitan area subsidized the downtown activities in the early years, but now pay lower property tax rates due to the city's TIF‐financed urban revitalization progra

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00163.x

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年代:1995

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ABSTRACT.This note is an empirical study that further develops existing analysis by McHugh and Gober published in this journal (1992). The note follows McHugh and Gober by using annual state‐to‐state migration flow data from Internal Revenue Service records and measures of migration efficiency in analyzing the U.S. interstate migration system. It extends the analysis to a longer period, however—1975 to 1992. This note enhances McHugh and Gober's analysis by extending our knowledge of changes in U.S. migration patterns into the 1990s. But it also suggests modifications to some of their conclusions. First, the note concludes that the emergence of a new pattern of population redistribution in the U.S. in the 1980s, as reported by McHugh and Gober, was indeed significant, but that it was transitory. Second, the note's analysis does not support McHugh and Gober's conclusion of a fairly strong inverse relationship between migration effectiveness and economic expansions and contrac

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00164.x

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年代:1995

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00165.x

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年代:1995

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Book reviewed in this article:TheTransformation ofCommunistSystems: EconomicReformSince the1950S. by Bernard Chavance.PostcommunistEconomicTransformation: Essays inHonor ofGregoryGrossman. by Robert W. Campbell (ed.).

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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1995.tb00166.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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