Impact of Government Intervention on Employment Change and Plant Closure in Northern Ireland, 1983-97

Harris R. and Trainor M. (2007) Impact of government intervention on employment change and plant closure in Northern Ireland, 1983-97, Regional Studies 41, 51-63. Financial assistance to manufacturing industry is an important element of the industrial development policy in Northern Ireland. This paper uses the individual plant-level records of the Annual Respondents Database (ARD) for the Northern Ireland manufacturing sector (1983-97) matched to the plant-level details of financial support provided by the Industrial Development Board to examine the effect of selective financial assistance (SFA) on employment change and plant closure. It is found that SFA concentrated on protecting existing, rather than new, enterprises in terms of employment change. Using a hazard model, it is found that the receipt of SFA significantly reduced the probability of plant closure by, on average, between 15 and 24%.

South Carolina Statistical Abstract '97

The South Carolina Budget and Control Board, Office of Research and Statistics annually published Statistical Abstracts, a comprehensive, single-source reference of demographic and economic data pertinent to the state. This publication is now an online publication by the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.

Agency Accountability Report Fiscal Year 1996-97

The South Carolina State Ethics Commission reports to the Office of State Budget its annual accountability report that includes an organization chart, comparative summary of statistics, and report of programs of the Ethics Commission.

Les sept merveilles du n° 7 : parodie électro-physico-magnético-burlesco-féerico-dramatico-comique en 9 tableaux dont un prologue et un entr'acte. [suivi de ] L'ami François : comédie-vaudeville en 1 acte. Livr. 97 / par MM. Cormon et Eugène Grangé ; par MM. Bourdois et Émile Colliot

Collection : Théâtre contemporain illustré ; 96e et 97e livraisons

Les sept merveilles du n° 7 : parodie électro-physico-magnético-burlesco-féerico-dramatico-comique en 9 tableaux dont un prologue et un entr'acte. [suivi de ] L'ami François : comédie-vaudeville en 1 acte. Livr. 97 / par MM. Cormon et Eugène Grangé ; par MM. Bourdois et Émile Colliot

Collection : Théâtre contemporain illustré ; 96e et 97e livraisons

Optical Properties of Sb2Te3, and Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors Sb1.97 VO.03 Te3 and Sb1.94 CrO.06 Te3

This thesis reports on the optical properties of the dilute magnetic semiconductors, Sb1.97 V 0.03 Te3 and Sb1.94Cr0.06Te3, along with the parent compound Sb2Te3' These materials develop a ferromagnetic state at low temperature with Curie temperatures of 22 K and 16 K respectively. All three samples were oriented such that the electric field vector of the light was perpendicular to the c-axis. The reflectance profile of these samples in the mid-infrared (500 to 3000 cm-1) shows a pronounced plasma edge which retracts with decreasing temperature. The far-infrared region of these samples exhibits a phonon at ~ 60 cm-1 which softens as temperature decreases. Kramers-Kronig analysis and a Drude-Lorentz model were employed to determine the optical constants of the bulk samples. The real part of the optical conductivity is shown to consist of intraband contributions at frequencies below the energy gap (~0.26 eV) and interband contributions at frequencies above the energy gap. The temperature dependence of the scattering rate show that a mix of phonon and impurity scattering are present, while the signature of traditional spin disorder (magnetic) scattering was difficult to confirm.