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Does State and Local Government Employment Promote Tax Revenue Stability? A Look at Kentucky Cities

Research shows that public sector jobs are more stable than private sector jobs. This study examines whether tax revenue volatility is affected by the concentration of a city’s economic base in state and local government employment. The relationship between public employment and revenue volatility has not been studied but is relevant as state and local governments have reduced their workforces in the post-Great Recession period. Using panel data on Kentucky cities, I find that the coefficient on state and local government employment concentration is inversely related to tax volatility but is not statistically significant in a fixed effects estimation

Understanding Local Residents’ Contribution to Online Travel Communities

By exploring online helping behavior, this study developed and tested a conceptual framework to understand local residents’ contribution to online travel communities. The conceptual framework was established based on the attribution-empathy theory and the social identity theory. A web-based survey was conducted in the online travel community “CouchSurfing”, and a total of 377 cases were included in the analysis. The findings indicate that the conceptual framework is statistically significant, and variables of social identity of local resident, attachment to the online community, participation in the online community and personal distress are significant predictors of helping behavior. Based on the results, both theoretical and practical implications are discussed

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article examines the experience of life and labor on the Panama Canal in the years of its construction through the recollections of one worker from Oklahoma, David Theodore Sherrard. William D. Pennington includes photographs from the Panama Canal construction process

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article describes the agricultural programming the United States government promoted for Cheyenne and Arapaho lands in the late nineteenth century. William D. Pennington describes the attempt and ultimate failure of the policies in transforming nomadic groups into agrarian ones

The Key Table (Overview)

The Key Table is an interactive device developed by the Interaction Research Studio as part of the Equator project, a six-year Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). During the project, the piece was loaned to various households for field study

Halogen Bonding in Nitrogen and Iodine Compounds to Form Novel Cocrystals

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