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698628
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b520817
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Persky, Joseph
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Does "trickle down" work? : : economic development strategies and job chains in local labor markets /\ Joseph Persky, Daniel Felsenstein, Virginia Carlson
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| Publication Statement
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Kalamazoo, Mich. :: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,, 2004
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ix, 179 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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0880993081 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 088099309X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780880993081 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780880993098 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-166) and index
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| Contents
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1. Introduction : Surface ripples and vertical chains ; Multipliers in practice: a hypothetical case study ; Building tools for job-chains analysis -- 2. Labor markets and trickle down : Underemployment and labor markets ; Trickle down and economic development -- 3. The problem with impact analysis: counting everything, valuing nothing : Issues in impact analysis ; All-or-nothing evaluations ; Studies and applications ; Synthesizing the applications ; The limits to existing approaches -- 4. Delving beneath the surface: Job chains in the evaluation of local economic development : Defining job chains ; Applications of the job-chains metaphor ; A general model of job chains ; The mechanics of job chains: A Leontief approach ; Job chains and trickle down: three propositions -- 5. Operationalizing a job-chains approach : The need for empirical research ; An empirical strategy ; The panel study of income dynamics ; Estimating the augmented Q matrix ; Chain lengths ; Individual welfare gains ; Welfare gains along average chains ; Sensitivity analysis ; Expanding on impact analysis -- 6. Extensions : Boom and bust ; Goods and services ; Internal and external hiring -- 7. Job chains: implications for state and local economic development policy ; Economic development policy themes ; Trickle down: does it really work? ; Thinking "chain-wise": why it helps -- Appendixes : A. Unemployment and underemployment ; B. Formal treatment of trickle down ; C. Data
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Annotation
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Economic development-- Mathematical models
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Job creation-- Mathematical models
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Job vacancies-- Mathematical models
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Labor turnover-- Mathematical models
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| Dewey Classification
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339.5
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HD5713.3.P47 2004
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HD5713.3.P47 2004
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Carlson, Virginia, (Virginia L.)
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Felzenshṭain, Daniyel
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