LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... ... more LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... Providing information based on a larger and less restrictive sample, Powell-Griner and Trent use a similar method in considering the decisions made by approximately ...
... constructed from the following variables: Convictions (number of times Respondent was ever co... more ... constructed from the following variables: Convictions (number of times Respondent was ever convicted of a crime), Discrimination (a dummy variable equal to 1 if Respondent feels he has been discriminated against on the basis of race, sex and/or age), Fired (number of years ...
In the recent past, a great deal of faith has been placed in the idea that the performance of the... more In the recent past, a great deal of faith has been placed in the idea that the performance of the hospital industry could be improved significantly by relying more heavily on profit incentives. This article considers the effect of profit incentives on hospital behavior and finds that the existence of profit incentives has not led the for-profit hospitals in the sample to behave in significantly different economic fashions than the nonprofits.
Few, if any, epidemics responsible for 20 million severe injuries and/or deaths each year, global... more Few, if any, epidemics responsible for 20 million severe injuries and/or deaths each year, globally, receive less public attention than do traffic accidents truly making them a “hidden epidemic”. Worse yet, the epidemic is growing as evidenced by World Health Organization data which show deaths from traffic accidents increasing by 20 percent between 1990 and 2002. In this paper we examine how a country’s stage of development and its distribution of income affect its traffic fatality rate. In our theoretical analysis, we show that traffic fatalities should have a nonlinear relationship with a country’s level of per capita income while being a decreasing function of income equality. We test our model’s predictions by evaluating data from 79 countries between 1970 and 2000, taking into account other factors that influence traffic fatalities like the motorization rate, health care networks, education, and alcohol consumption and find strong evidence of the theoretical model’s prediction...
A number of recent studies have, separately, addressed the effects of public sector corruption an... more A number of recent studies have, separately, addressed the effects of public sector corruption and natural disasters. In this paper, we intersect these lines of research to assess whether corruption in the public sector plays a role in the havoc wrought by large scale natural disasters, using major earthquakes as the example. We first develop a brief theoretical model of
... The Labor Force Attachment of Discouraged Workers LONNIE K. STEVANS Hofstra University CHARLE... more ... The Labor Force Attachment of Discouraged Workers LONNIE K. STEVANS Hofstra University CHARLES A. REGISTER Kent State University PAUL W. GRIMES ... from engaging in activities outside the realm of work, as well as from labor market involvement (see Horn, 1981). ...
This article presents an empirical examination of female attachment to the labor market. An econo... more This article presents an empirical examination of female attachment to the labor market. An econometric model of the discouragement process is built to determine how strongly women exhibit the inclination to remain labor force participants over the course of the business cycle. The estimated results imply that women, as a group, have a stronger response to changes in short-run cyclical fluctuations and therefore will sever their attachment to the labor force significantly sooner than their male counterparts. However, when the analysis is broken down by race, minority females are discovered to demonstrate only a modest response to short-run fluctuations and a very pronounced long-run sensitivity to cyclical swings. Thus, the results suggest that while females as a whole do not exhibit the same degree of labor force attachment as males, minority females respond in a manner similar to that of male workers. Such a conclusion is in agreement with the growing literature on the labor market behavior of minority females who are increasingly playing the same economic role in society as men.
... Specifical-ly, because our findings run counter to the popular view that unions reduce produc... more ... Specifical-ly, because our findings run counter to the popular view that unions reduce productivity and, therefore, quality in education, it is not necessary to de-vote relatively more resources to a unionized school district. ... Teacher unions and the productivity of public schools. ...
LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... ... more LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... Providing information based on a larger and less restrictive sample, Powell-Griner and Trent use a similar method in considering the decisions made by approximately ...
LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... ... more LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... Providing information based on a larger and less restrictive sample, Powell-Griner and Trent use a similar method in considering the decisions made by approximately ...
... constructed from the following variables: Convictions (number of times Respondent was ever co... more ... constructed from the following variables: Convictions (number of times Respondent was ever convicted of a crime), Discrimination (a dummy variable equal to 1 if Respondent feels he has been discriminated against on the basis of race, sex and/or age), Fired (number of years ...
In the recent past, a great deal of faith has been placed in the idea that the performance of the... more In the recent past, a great deal of faith has been placed in the idea that the performance of the hospital industry could be improved significantly by relying more heavily on profit incentives. This article considers the effect of profit incentives on hospital behavior and finds that the existence of profit incentives has not led the for-profit hospitals in the sample to behave in significantly different economic fashions than the nonprofits.
Few, if any, epidemics responsible for 20 million severe injuries and/or deaths each year, global... more Few, if any, epidemics responsible for 20 million severe injuries and/or deaths each year, globally, receive less public attention than do traffic accidents truly making them a “hidden epidemic”. Worse yet, the epidemic is growing as evidenced by World Health Organization data which show deaths from traffic accidents increasing by 20 percent between 1990 and 2002. In this paper we examine how a country’s stage of development and its distribution of income affect its traffic fatality rate. In our theoretical analysis, we show that traffic fatalities should have a nonlinear relationship with a country’s level of per capita income while being a decreasing function of income equality. We test our model’s predictions by evaluating data from 79 countries between 1970 and 2000, taking into account other factors that influence traffic fatalities like the motorization rate, health care networks, education, and alcohol consumption and find strong evidence of the theoretical model’s prediction...
A number of recent studies have, separately, addressed the effects of public sector corruption an... more A number of recent studies have, separately, addressed the effects of public sector corruption and natural disasters. In this paper, we intersect these lines of research to assess whether corruption in the public sector plays a role in the havoc wrought by large scale natural disasters, using major earthquakes as the example. We first develop a brief theoretical model of
... The Labor Force Attachment of Discouraged Workers LONNIE K. STEVANS Hofstra University CHARLE... more ... The Labor Force Attachment of Discouraged Workers LONNIE K. STEVANS Hofstra University CHARLES A. REGISTER Kent State University PAUL W. GRIMES ... from engaging in activities outside the realm of work, as well as from labor market involvement (see Horn, 1981). ...
This article presents an empirical examination of female attachment to the labor market. An econo... more This article presents an empirical examination of female attachment to the labor market. An econometric model of the discouragement process is built to determine how strongly women exhibit the inclination to remain labor force participants over the course of the business cycle. The estimated results imply that women, as a group, have a stronger response to changes in short-run cyclical fluctuations and therefore will sever their attachment to the labor force significantly sooner than their male counterparts. However, when the analysis is broken down by race, minority females are discovered to demonstrate only a modest response to short-run fluctuations and a very pronounced long-run sensitivity to cyclical swings. Thus, the results suggest that while females as a whole do not exhibit the same degree of labor force attachment as males, minority females respond in a manner similar to that of male workers. Such a conclusion is in agreement with the growing literature on the labor market behavior of minority females who are increasingly playing the same economic role in society as men.
... Specifical-ly, because our findings run counter to the popular view that unions reduce produc... more ... Specifical-ly, because our findings run counter to the popular view that unions reduce productivity and, therefore, quality in education, it is not necessary to de-vote relatively more resources to a unionized school district. ... Teacher unions and the productivity of public schools. ...
LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... ... more LONNIE K. STEVANS, CHARLES A. REGISTER AND DAVID N. SESSIONS ... 328 LONNIE K. STEVANS ETAL. ... Providing information based on a larger and less restrictive sample, Powell-Griner and Trent use a similar method in considering the decisions made by approximately ...
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