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Regional Outlook for 2022 – Texas
As part of my activities with the San Antonio Business and Economics Society (SABES), I have updated my work for the GSMP and added a few more items as we look forward to 2022. The…
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Texas Innovation Corridor – San Marcos Greater Partnership Presentation
Thank you very much to Frost Bank Investment Advisors for including me on a panel at this year's SMGP Economic Outlook luncheon. I am honored to be included and to offer a few ideas about…
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The costs of employee turnover for the YWCA Wage Equity Advisory Board
With the number of job-leavers remaining high, employers may be asking themselves: How much is this costing me? Here I provide a way to think about the cost of employee turnover. This material was presented…
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Texas Economic Regions by the numbers
Manipulate the graph and scroll through the many data points by location and year. I have identified central cities in each of Texas' economic regions as defined by the Texas Comptroller's Office. These data are…
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Estimates of Women by Race, Ethnicity in the San Antonio job market 2022 -2026
This research was for a report to the City of San Antonio. The idea was to consider what the jobs markets might look like for women or races/ethnicities. This is not a report on jobs…
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Changes to the Minimum Wage for Mexico Over Time
The significance of watching Mexico's minimum wage over time is two-fold. For businesses, the change gives managers an idea of what labor costs will be like. For workers, they now have an idea of how…
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COVID-19 Provider Relief Payments 2020
One of the big questions on the horizon for 2021 is going to be the impact of COVID-19 on various levels of society. This graphic shows how much was paid to health care providers through…
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Time Use along the Mexico-U.S. Border
This is the second in a series of plots describing the time use of women and men in Texas. Here I focus on the border counties. Firstly, let me point out that the IPUMS datasets…
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Time Use @ Home & Work for Bexar County
This jitter plot shows the difference in time use between men and women in Bexar County over the past 9 years. The horizontal axis represents hours of work per week and the vertical shows hours…