Growth and Change articles from January 1998

Growth and Change archives from January 1998

Predicting the displaced worker industry switching: targeting training programs.
January 1, 1998... Introduction Worker displacement continues to be an important issue in the United States. Policy makers, researchers, and the public are concerned with the incidence and costs of displacement and the benefits of providing assistance to...

Gender and ethnic concentration and employment prospects for Mexican-American migrants.
January 1, 1998... Migration has long been viewed as a labor market process that redistributes labor from areas of oversupply to areas where it can be more effectively utilized. At an individual level, this human capital approach suggests that people migrate in...

Factors and correlates of employment growth in the Canadian urban system, 1971-1991.
January 1, 1998... Introduction As Canada approaches the beginning of a new century, it is clear that both the nation and its individual urban areas have been caught up in a major transformation - a "Non-Industrial Revolution," many would say - which may well...

Convergence amid divergence in a region.
January 1, 1998... Introduction The tendency for real per capita incomes to converge across economic areas has been detected and documented for groups of countries, regions within continents, and the states of the United States. This paper examines three...

A model of tax increment financing adoption incentives.
January 1, 1998... Introduction Tax increment financing (TIF) is a policy tool that allows a municipality to designate an area for improvement and then earmark any future growth in property tax revenues to pay for economic development expenditures. If all of...

The Cultural Crisis of the Firm.
January 1, 1998... By Erica Shoenberger. Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 1997, ix + 229 pp. ISBN 1-55786-637-6, $59.95 (hardcover); ISBN 1-55786-638-4, $21.95 (paperback). At seven chapters and 229 pages of text, this book is relatively short and can be rated high on...

Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective.
January 1, 1998... Edited by Gordon J. MacDonald, Daniel L. Nielson, and Marc A. Stern. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1997. xii + 292 pp. ISBN 0-8133-2424-6, $16.95 (paperback). This is an ambitious project, notable for all it includes - as well as for much it...

Consumer Services and Economic Development.
January 1, 1998... By Colin C. Williams. New York NY: Routledge, 1997. xiv + 293 pp. ISBN 0-415-14505-8, $24.99 (paperback); ISBN 0-415-14504-X, $75 (hardcover). The rapid expansion of the role of the service sector in the global economy have led economic...

Making Strategic Spatial Plans: Innovations in Europe.
January 1, 1998... Edited by Patsy Healy, Abdul Khakee, Alain Motte and Barrie Needham. London: UCL Press, 1997xi + 307 pp. ISBN 1-85728-663-4, $90 (hardcover); ISBN 1-85728-664-2, $27.95 (paperback). This edited volume is concerned with the changing form and...

The Golden Age Illusion: Rethinking Postwar Capitalism.
January 1, 1998... By Michael J. Webber and David L. Rigby, New York and London: Guilford Press, 1996. 545 pp. ISBN 0-89862-573-4, $24.95 (softcover); ISBN 0-89862-574-2, $45.00 (hardcover). The avowed purpose of this book is to "comprehend the main features...

The Logic of International Restructuring.
January 1, 1998... By Winfried Ruigrok and Rob van Tulder. New York: Routledge, 1996 xvi + 344 pp. ISBN 0-415-12238-4, $65 (hardback); ISBN 0-415-12239-2, $18.95 (paperback). The authors, who are affiliated with the Rotterdam School of Management, take a...