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| Gunter, Lewell F.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| Local labor market characteristics are theoretically relevant to the determination of off-farm earnings of farm operators, but the empirical analysis of these effects has been hindered by a lack of appropriate data. This study employs the new census public use micro-data sample, PUMS-D, to investigate the effect of local labor market characteristics on off-farm earnings of farm operators. The PUMS-D data allow local characteristics to be defined on a labor market area basis, rather than on a political boundary basis. For a sample of Georgia farm operators, local labor market size, unemployment rates, and industrial structure were found to have significant impacts on off-farm employment and earnings. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 1990 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/29901 |
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| Broder, Josef M.; Taylor, Teresa D.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| Quasi-experimental techniques were developed to provide decision-making tools for documenting the impacts of developmental highways in rural areas. Regression discontinuity analysis (RDA) with limited observations was used to compare economic changes in highway counties to those in adjacent and non-adjacent control counties. The RDA models found statistically significant changes in population, per capita income, and taxable sales related to highway development. The study found that some counties benefited from developmental highways, some were unchanged, while some experienced economic decline. RDA models with adjacent controls had better explanatory powers while those with non-adjacent controls were more sensitive to highway-related changes in... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 1992 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30386 |
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| Kraybill, David S.; Yoder, Michael J.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| A recent trend in rural development policy emphasizes small business development in place of industrial recruitment. To analyze some of the likely effects of expanding the proportion of small firms in local economies, an empirical wage rate model incorporating employer size was developed, and parameters were estimated using household date from rural Putnam County, Georgia. The estimates indicated that large employers offered higher wages than small employers and that the wage premium they offered was greater for blacks than for whites. These results support Thomas Till's argument that southern rural counties with relatively large black populations should not abandon efforts to attract large employers. Other factors associated with higher wages included... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30045 |
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| Ludena, Carlos E.; McNamara, Kevin T.; Hammer, P. Allen; Foster, Kenneth A.. |
| Increased domestic concentration and international competition in the floricultural industry are forcing growers to improve resource management efficiency. Cost management and cost accounting methods are becoming key tools as growers attempt to reduce costs. These tools allow growers to allocate costs for each crop, increasing their greenhouse planning abilities. Growers have a relative high degree of risk due to potential crop and market failure. Individual growers have different tolerance for risk and risk bearing capacity. Growers need a cost accounting system that incorporates production and market risk, a system that allows them to make informed business decisions. The research reported in this paper developed a greenhouse budgeting model that... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21942 |
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| Kriesel, Warren; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| Empirical analysis of manufacturing plant location requires the use of a single industrial site quality measure. Under hedonic price theory, the price of industrial sites can be explained by their quality characteristics. The estimated site price is included with ten other location factors in an ordered, categorical logit model of plant attraction to Georgia counties. The results inform public decision-makers of the relative impact of site location factors and how changes in location factors can alter the probability of attracting a manufacturing plant. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30281 |
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| Low, Sarah A.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| Indiana's food industry economically impacts residents through employment, income, and agriculture, by increasing demand for Indiana-produced agricultural commodities. This paper provides an overview of Indiana's food industry by detailing size, gross state product, employment, income, and average wage associated with the sector. Discussion is also included on Indiana's food industry compared to neighboring states. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28649 |
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| Hine, Susan E.; Fulton, Joan R.; Loureiro, Maria L.; Vandeburg, Jennifer M.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| Agricultural cooperatives have been restructuring, by way of mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures, and strategic alliances, to increase efficiencies to remain competitive in a changing business environment. The research evaluating the reorganization of cooperatives has revealed that less than one-half of the restructured businesses are financially successful. There is the potential to significantly influence the future health of the cooperative business sector if, first, insights can be gained concerning the factors being considered by cooperative managers when making restructuring decisions and, second, extension education programs can be adapted to meet the greatest need. In this study we examine: (a) what methods of valuation cooperatives are using... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Capital budgeting methods; Cooperatives; Finance; Restructuring; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14677 |
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| Lambert, Dayton M.; McNamara, Kevin T.; Garrett, Megan I.. |
| The influence product markets, agglomeration, labor, infrastructure, and government fiscal attributes had on manufacturing investment flows in Indiana between 2000 and 2004 were estimated using Poisson regression, geographically weighted regression, and a spatial general linear model. Counties with access to urbanization economies, product markets, available labor, a high-quality workforce, and transport infrastructure were more likely to attract manufacturing investment. These effects were magnified to some extent when inter-county spatial effects were modeled. The distributional assumptions of the spatial models are different, but both methods are useful for understanding the spatial context of the factors influencing manufacturing investment flows. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Geographically weighted regression; Location determinants; Location theory; Manufacturing site selection; Poisson spatial generalized linear model; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; Productivity Analysis; R1; R3. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43752 |
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| Henderson, Jason R.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| Capturing value-added activity is often promoted as a rural development strategy, but this is difficult for specific communities lacking the resources to support food manufacturing activity. This study analyzes the relationship between local attributes and food manufacturing plant investments in Corn Belt counties between 1987 and 1995. Plant investment locations tend to occur in counties with access to input and product markets, developed transportation networks, agglomeration economies, favorable fiscal policies, and a low wage environment. Supply-oriented firms locate near agricultural commodities and low-cost labor. Demand-oriented firms favor locations near product markets and transportation systems. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30893 |
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| Lambert, Dayton M.; McNamara, Kevin T.; Beeler, Megan I.. |
| Food manufacturing site selection is determined by infrastructure, agglomeration, product and input markets, labor markets, and fiscal attributes of local communities. This article examines how these factors influence location decisions across the rural-urban continuum in the lower forty-eight states of the U.S. Negative binomial regression and spatial clustering methods are used to forecast new food processor location patterns at the county level, 2000-2004. Remote rural areas are at a comparative disadvantage with respect to attracting food processors, but non-metropolitan counties with economic links to urban core areas may be attractive investment sites for footloose, supply, and demand-oriented food manufacturers. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Firm location; Food manufacturing; Negative binomial regression; Spatial clustering; Community/Rural/Urban Development; R1; R3. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9706 |
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