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On the Alaska budget: A historical comparison
Posted Jan 27, 2020 at Alaskanomics
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Alaska's Economy and Budget
Posted Jan 17, 2020 at Alaskanomics
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A simple decomposition of Alaska’s Labor force
Posted Dec 12, 2019 at Alaskanomics
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Economic Impacts of the Vetoes on the Alaska Economy
By Mouhcine Guettabi and Nolan Klouda On June 28, 2019 Governor Mike Dunleavy announced line-item vetoes totaling $409 million from the State of Alaska budget for Fiscal Year 2020. These vetoes include significant cuts to the University of Alaska, Medicaid, payments to local governments, public assistance programs, state personnel headcounts,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2019 at Alaskanomics
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What does the future hold for the Alaska economy?
Posted Jan 7, 2019 at Alaskanomics
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Which areas are recovering and which ones are not?
Posted Dec 13, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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A regional assessment of the recession from 2016-2018
Posted Dec 10, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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How do oil prices influence Alaska and other energy-dependent states?
Posted Oct 15, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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Effects of PFDs on Poverty Among Rural Alaska Natives
A new article in the journal World Development, by Matthew Berman, professor of economics at ISER, examines how the Permanent Fund dividend (PFD) has reduced poverty among the 60,000 or so Alaska Natives living in small, isolated communities far off the road system. PFDs are cash payments the state government... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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How is the State Dealing with the Shortfall in Pension Systems?
A new paper by Cliff Groh, in collaboration with ISER faculty, looks at how the state government has dealt so far with a very big problem: the state's two largest retirement systems for public employees don't have enough money to cover future costs of pensions and benefits for state and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 18, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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How Does Alaska’s Spending Compare?
By Mouhcine Guettabi, Alaskans have been arguing for years about how much the state should be spending, ever since low oil prices gouged a big hole in the budget. A new paper by ISER researchers Mouhcine Guettabi, Trang Tran, and Linda Leask aims to give some context to that debate,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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What Do We Know to Date about the Alaska Recession and the Fiscal Crunch?
In 2017, job losses in Alaska's ongoing recession spread from the sectors first affected—primarily oil and gas and state government—to the sectors that depend on household spending, including retail trade, accommodation and food services, and leisure and hospitality. Alaska will continue losing jobs in 2018, but at a slower pace—... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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Alaska's 2018 Construction Spending Forecast
Construction spending in Alaska this year will be around $6.6 billion, up 4% from 2017. But that overall increase is due just to a recovery in spending by the petroleum industry, which is expected to be up about 15%, to nearly $2.6 billion. Without petroleum, overall construction spending in 2018... Continue reading
Posted Feb 7, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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Who Earns More: Private or Public Workers?
Research Matters No. 109. Who Earns More: Private or Public Workers? Mouhcine Guettabi and Andrew Bibler, both assistant professors of economics at ISER, recently looked at how the paychecks of people who work for private businesses in Alaska compare with those of people who work for state and local governments... Continue reading
Posted Jan 22, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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How much is uncertainty costing the state of Alaska?
Posted Jan 3, 2018 at Alaskanomics
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Alaska's Economy Then and Now
Posted Nov 6, 2017 at Alaskanomics
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Teacher Turnover Costs Alaska $20 Million Annually
By Dayna DeFeo, Center for Alaska Education Policy Research at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, UAA On average, every teacher who leaves a school district in Alaska costs that district nearly $20,500. A third of that is for recruiting and hiring a replacement teacher, and half is for... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2017 at Alaskanomics
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Local Government State Aid
By Mouhcine Guettabi, assistant professor of economics, Institute of Social and Economic Research, UAA When oil prices were high, the state government collected billions of dollars in oil revenues every year—and it shared a lot of that money with Alaska’s local governments. State aid helps pay for general government expenses... Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2017 at Alaskanomics
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