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from transit systems. This interpretation is challenged by findings from a case study of the New York City subway system, which shows a significant relationship between the amount and composition ...
reached epidemic levels nearly every third summer. But unlike other American cities where yellow fever occasionally struck—including Charleston, Philadelphia, and New York —in New Orleans a person would ...
and pensions. Oregon, New York City , San Francisco, Seattle, and Philadelphia have passed laws requiring businesses to offer workers guaranteed hours and prior notice of schedules to provide more predictable ...
investment style. Dots correspond to the right-hand axis and indicate the total amount of capital . Figure 1. Open in new tabDownload slide Bars represent the number of active hedge funds in the TASS database ...
arson in decaying neighborhoods, where it was used to collect insurance money on overvalued or vacant buildings. This focus is warranted. New York City experienced around 10,000 arsons each year from 1974 ...
such as the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) or the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) as well as in private sector ‘Taft-Hartley’ funds. CalPERS, for example, is a public agency ...
(Chirinko and Wilson, 2008). Figure 5 indicates that the share of new capital formation in the overall state-government expenditure has persistently declined over time. Fig. 4. Open in new tabDownload slide ...
expansion, cities needed to build reservoirs, aqueducts and distribution pipelines, making water supply among the largest of modern ‘industries’ in terms of capital invested (Blake, 1956; Gandy, 2004; Kaika ...
transit system ‘has historically meant transportation for poor people, disabled, the transit -dependent and losers’ (Wall, 2006). In New York City , by contrast, the transit system is so widely used ...
gradually increased the rate of technological progress, inducing investment in human capital that led to a demographic transition and sustained growth. Galor and Moav (2002) develop a unified evolutionary ...
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