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The Impact of Wal-Mart on Local Fiscal Health: Evidence from a Panel of Ohio Counties
Get PDFThis research analyzes selected fiscal impacts of Wal-Mart in Ohio from 1985 through 2003. Using a panel of counties, and accounting for spatial autocorrelation in an instrumental variable model I estimate impact of Wal-Mart and Super-Centers on selected revenues and transfer payments. On revenues I find that the presence of a Wal-Mart increases local commercial property tax assessments, resulting in collection increases of between 1.3 million. Wal-Mart also is associated with higher levels of local labor force participation. On expenditures I also find that the presence of a Wal-Mart dramatically increases the per capita EITC claims in a county (between 18 and 43 percent), while the dollar value of these claims experiences mixed impacts between Wal-Mart and a Supercenter. Similarly, the impact of Wal-Mart on Foodstamps expenditures is mixed, but small in any case. There are no in-county impacts of Wal-Mart on expenditures on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families and its predecessor Aid to Families with Dependent Children. However, Medicaid expenditures experience growth which may amount to roughly 16 additional cases per county attributable to a single Wal- Mart. The per worker costs of Medicaid estimated in this study is consistent with reported levels in a number of states, and study estimates by Dube and Jacobs [2004], Carlson [2005] and Hicks [2005a]. The magnitude and statistical certainty of these findings, accompanied by a review of previous research suggests that local fiscal intervention, either through incentives or the much touted “Wal-Mart Tax” is unwarranted.
What Do Quarterly Workforce Dynamics Tell Us About Wal-Mart? Evidence from New Stores in Pennsylvania
Get PDFIn this paper I seek to better inform debate regarding Wal-Mart’s local impact on wages, and employment dynamics by combining data on Wal-Mart stores with the recently release Quarterly Workforce Indicators provided by the US Census. Use a panel of Pennsylvania counties, who saw entrance of a Wal-Mart in 2002, I find a new store has no effect on existing employee wages in the retail sector. However, new retail sector hires experience a roughly 1,500 purchases of diapers annual since 1999 I have no financial relationship with Wal-Mart or any affiliate that I am aware of.Wal-Mart, Pennsylvania, Quarterly Workforce Indicators
Does Wal-Mart Cause an Increase in Anti-Poverty Program Expenditures?
Get PDFAs the largest private sector employer in the United States, Wal-Mart experiences considerable scrutiny over its influence on a number of regional fiscal and economic issues. These include its impact on the local retail market structure, land use patterns, local fiscal conditions and general business practices. Criticism of Wal-Mart’s business practices include, but are not limited to its anti-unionization efforts, sale of imported goods, wage and compensation structure and the use of Federal and state anti-poverty transfers by its employees. In this paper I evaluate the concerns regarding the role of Wal-Mart in changing expenditures on Federal and state anti-poverty transfers in the United States. Using a panel of the conterminous 48 states, correcting for time and spatial autocorrelation and local government mix and policy changes, I find the number of Wal-Marts, and their employment share in the retail sector have no impact on Foodstamps expenditures. Expenditures on AFDC/TANF are unaffected by Wal-Mart in the test using the number of stores to represent Wal-Mart’s presence. In the retail employment share, the impact is negative, with a 1 percent increase in Wal-Mart’s share reduced AFDC/TANF expenditures by 3.3 percent. I find that Wal-Mart does increase Medicaid expenditures by roughly $898 per worker, which is consistent with other studies of the Medicaid costs per low wage worker across the United States.
[Report from Lieutenant Terry Ingangriola to Captain W. P. Gannaway - December 17, 1963]
No full textReport from Lieutenant Terry Ingangriola of the Special Service Bureau to Captain W. P. Gannaway of the Special Service Bureau, listing the names of the police officers who were assigned as security guards to the first floor of the Dallas Trade Mart on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy's destination on the day of his assassination
A Critical Overview of Epistemology of Tanzimat Literature: Duality and Teacher-Author / Student-Reader Relationship
No full textGüngör, Bilgin, (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü)Tanzimat döneminin düşünsel yapısı ve edebi estetiği üzerine Ziya Gökalp’ten Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’a; Hilmi Ziya Ülken›den Mehmet Kaplan’a kadar pek çok aydın çeşitli yorumlar getirmişlerdir. Bu yorumlar, barındırdıkları çeşitli tezlerle birlikte, çoğunlukla “düalite” ekseninde yürür. Tanzimat dönemi -ve sonraki dönem- aydınlarının kaleme aldığı edebi ve edebiyat-dışı eserler göz önünde bulundurulduğunda bu “postula”nın somut bir temeli olduğunu söyleyebilmek mümkündür. Bununla birlikte Jale Parla, Babalar ve Oğullar (Tanzimat Romanının Epistemolojik Temelleri) adlı eserinde, Tanzimat döneminin düşünsel evreni üzerine farklı yorumlar getirmiş ve böyle bir evren için “düalite” kavramının yersiz olduğunu; bu dönemin aydınlarının ve romancılarının eserlerinde Doğulu değerlere evcilleştirilmiş Batılı değerlerin -en azından Beşir Fuad’a kadar- sorunsuzca eklemlendiğini ileri sürer. Ayrıca bu dönem romancıları ve roman kahramanları ile okur kitlesi arasında “baba-oğul” ilişkisine benzer bir ilişkinin somutlaştığını; Tanzimat Fermanı ile yetkileri kısıtlanan padişahın toplum karşısındaki “baba”lığını bu dönemde romancıların -ve genel Tanzimat aydınlarının- üstlendiğini belirtir. Şüphesiz Parla’nın söz konusu tezleri, kısmen somut bir zemine otursa da, çalışmamız sırasında da görüleceği gibi, bu dönem romancılarının -ve genel olarak Tanzimat aydınlarının- eserleri göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, oldukça “yanlışlanabilir” bir konumda belirir.Many intellectuals from Ziya Gökalp to Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and Hilmi Ziya Ülken to Mehmet Kaplan brought various interpretations on the intellectual structure and literary aesthetics of the Tanzimat period. These comments, along with the various theses they hold, often walk on the axis of “duality”. It is possible to say that this “postulat” is a concrete foundation when the literary and non-literary works received by the intellectuals of the Tanzimat period - and later periods - are taken into consideration. Jale Parla, in Babalar ve Oğullar (Tanzimat Romanının Epistemolojik Temelleri), however, brought different interpretations of the intellectual universe of the Tanzimat period and concluded that the concept of “duality” is unfounded for such a universe; argued that in the works of the intellectuals and novelists of this period, the domesticated Western values of Oriental values - at least to Beşir Fuad - were articulated without problems. In addition, this period embodies a similar relationship between the heroes of novels and novels and the readership of the “father-son” relationship, and indicates that the sultan, who was restricted by Tanzimat Fermanı and the authority of the sultan, assumed the “father” of the society in this period and the romans and generally Tanzimat intellectuals. Undoubtedly, even if Parla’s theses are partially tangible, this period can be seen as a “falsifiable” position when the works of the novelists - and generally Tanzimat intellectuals - are taken into consideration. In this review, we will focus on the disproportionate aspects of the theses, and some determinations will be made on the author-reader relationship of the period
Transportation and Infrastructure, Retail Clustering, and Local Public Finance: Evidence from Wal-Mart's Expansion
Get PDFThe author examines the role highway infrastructure and local property tax rate variability play in retail agglomeration in Indiana from 1988 through 2003. To account for data errors and the potential endogeneity of taxes and infrastructure on retail agglomeration, he introduces a unique identification strategy that exploits the entrance timing and location of Wal-Mart stores in Indiana. Using a time-series cross-sectional model of Indiana’s 92 counties from 1988 through 2003, he estimates the impact highway infrastructure, property taxes, and big-box competition have in creating regional agglomerations. Among two separate specifications and a full and rural-only set of the data, the author finds considerable agreement in the results. In the full sample, he finds no relationship between property tax rates or highway infrastructure and retail agglomeration. Within the non-metropolitan statistical area (MSA) counties, this relationship is very modest, though it possesses considerable statistical certainty. Highway impacts within the non-MSA counties are significant and positively related to retail agglomeration, with the presence of highways explaining about 10 percent of total agglomeration variability. (JEL R11, R53)Infrastructure; endogeneity; taxation; Wal-Mart
Athabasca Auction Mart - Inside View
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An efficient and accurate approach to MTE-MART for time-resolved tomographic PIV
No full textThe motion-tracking-enhanced MART (MTE-MART; Novara et al. in Meas Sci Technol 21:035401, 2010) has demonstrated the potential to increase the accuracy of tomographic PIV by the combined use of a short sequence of non-simultaneous recordings. A clear bottleneck of the MTE-MART technique has been its computational cost. For large datasets comprising time-resolved sequences, MTE-MART becomes unaffordable and has been barely applied even for the analysis of densely seeded tomographic PIV datasets. A novel implementation is proposed for tomographic PIV image sequences, which strongly reduces the computational burden of MTE-MART, possibly below that of regular MART. The method is a sequential algorithm that produces a time-marching estimation of the object intensity field based on an enhanced guess, which is built upon the object reconstructed at the previous time instant. As the method becomes effective after a number of snapshots (typically 5–10), the sequential MTE-MART (SMTE) is most suited for time-resolved sequences. The computational cost reduction due to SMTE simply stems from the fewer MART iterations required for each time instant. Moreover, the method yields superior reconstruction quality and higher velocity field measurement precision when compared with both MART and MTE-MART. The working principle is assessed in terms of computational effort, reconstruction quality and velocity field accuracy with both synthetic time-resolved tomographic images of a turbulent boundary layer and two experimental databases documented in the literature. The first is the time-resolved data of flow past an airfoil trailing edge used in the study of Novara and Scarano (Exp Fluids 52:1027–1041, 2012); the second is a swirling jet in a water flow. In both cases, the effective elimination of ghost particles is demonstrated in number and intensity within a short temporal transient of 5–10 frames, depending on the seeding density. The increased value of the velocity space–time correlation coefficient demonstrates the increased velocity field accuracy of SMTE compared with MART.Aerodynamics, Wind Energy & PropulsionAerospace Engineerin
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