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| Harris, Thomas R.; Thomsen, Roy W.; van Kooten, G. Cornelis. |
| Current export base methods that calculate basic and non-basic employment are too restrictive because they fail to account for uncertainty involved in the process. This paper shows the assignment of industries as either basic or non-basic by the location quotient procedure does not consistently represent the data for Nevada counties. Using fuzzy set procedures and membership functions in conjunction with the location quotient allow more flexibility in terms of matching the data for each industry in the region of interest. Using fuzzy set procedures we determine the proportion of employment that is basic and non-basic in nine non-governmental industries. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36565 |
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| van Kooten, G. Cornelis; Thomsen, Roy W.; Hobby, Thomas G.; Eagle, Alison J.. |
| Since the late 1960s, the Nevada ranch community has come under increasing pressure from environmental groups regarding their use of public lands for livestock grazing, thus increasing tension between ranchers and public land managers and potentially reducing the social capital that facilitates action and cooperation in range management. In this paper, we use responses to a survey of all public grazing permit holders in Nevada to investigate the changing relationships between ranchers and the public land agencies, and its potential implications. In particular, we investigate factors that affect ranchers' trust in the public land agencies, and then factors that influence the nature of the relationship between ranchers and the Bureau of Land Management and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18157 |
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