Sentences with phrase «with economist estimates»

Not exact matches

Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, estimates that if Sandy had not happened, small business payrolls would have been roughly in line with the October figure of an adjusted 52,000 jobs.

Others estimate Harvey has destroyed up to five times more: Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke told USA Today he believes 300,000 to 500,000 vehicles were destroyed by Harvey's path — with many of those covered by insurance.

Most state agencies are grappling with spending cuts of 5.5 %, and they're bracing for more belt tightening as state economists prepare to release reduced revenue estimates for the current and coming fiscal year.

How has that economist's past estimates of a particular economic statistic compared with the actual reported statistics?

Harvard economist George Borjas has estimated that high immigration from 1980 to 2000 reduced the wages of lower - skilled U.S. workers by 7.4 percent — a stunning drop — with particularly painful reductions for African American workers.

They now reckon Asia's third - largest economy will expand by a paltry 4.0 percent in the quarter, compared with a median estimate of 6.5 percent from a Bloomberg survey of 12 economists published in late - November.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

The renovation and new dining outlets added 90 new jobs to the resort, as well as 350 contract construction jobs, with a total estimated economic benefit to area of $ 20 million, according to economist Dr. Manfred Keil.

«The data available so far suggest that the economy probably stagnated in the fourth quarter, which is in line with the Bank of England's current estimates, and there is a growing likelihood of a slide back into recession in the new year,» said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.

A recent study by the former UK Foreign Office chief economist Gregor Irwin estimates that the renegotiation of Britain's trading relations with the EU upon exit alone would take about ten years.

Some economists have estimated that next year's budget deficit could exceed $ 10 billion, and with the state's expenses increasing almost twice as fast as its revenues, the deficit is likely to grow radically from there.

Working with Shigeyuyki Hamori, an economist at Kobe University in Japan, I researched methods for estimating the qualities and contributions of marriage prospects.

According to the Times, «replacing a poor teacher with an average one would raise a single classroom's lifetime earnings by about $ 266,000, the economists estimate.»

We chose first to compare our results with those reported by Princeton economist Alan Krueger in his reanalysis of the Project STAR data from Tennessee, which produced some of the highest estimates of class - size effects among credible studies.

Partial Identification of Willingness - to - Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people

Simon Burgess — a first rate economist at the University of Bristol — pointed out that the difference between having a terrible teacher (bottom 5 %) and a great one (top 5 %) can be as much as one GCSE grade (these estimates for the effects of teacher quality are consistent with other estimates from other countries).

Replacing a poor teacher with an average one would raise a single classroom's lifetime earnings by about $ 266,000, the economists estimate.

The Economist magazine ran an update to its story on global real estate with valuation estimates based on rents and income.

CIBC World Market's deputy - chief economist, Benjamin Tal, estimates that the number of «pure foreign investment» condos in actually a small segment of the market — and only slightly higher if you factor in families where one spouse continues to live overseas while the other lives with children who attend school in Canada.

Nobel Prize - winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote recently that «These calculations [on costs and benefits of slowing global warming] indicate that, even with higher discounting, The Stern Review's estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.»

We assume that between 2005 and 2012 the economy grew at 2.5 % (on par with recent economist and CBO estimates of potential GDP growth), the energy - intensity of the economy declined by 1.9 % a year (the average annual rate between 1990 and 2005), and the energy mix (and thus carbon - intensity of energy supply) remained constant.

But this number is likely inflated, according to economist Robyn Allan, who estimates that only 10 per cent of the crude actually faces the discount because producers use vertical integration with refineries, upgrading, long - term shipment contracts for pipelines and the futures market.

Economists and climate scientists have developed a number of models to estimate global emissions prices that are consistent with ultimately stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentrations at these target levels and minimizing the global burden of mitigation costs over time.

It reproduced a preliminary graph from a non-physical sciences group showing lower than scientific consensus estimates for temperature increase through 2100 and conflated it with an entirely Economist - manufactured news item erroneously stating scientists are finding climate sensitivity is lower than previously expected (Hint: it's not).

Yet, The Economist remains enchanted with the notion of warping these already conservative estimates to pad its own, more comfortable, view of reality.

The world's expert climate - change economists estimate that the costs associated with reducing CO2 emissions will be multiple times higher than the actual CO2 reduction benefits.

Looking ahead, I collaborated with Yale economist Robert Mendelsohn and his colleagues in estimating global hurricane damage changes through the year 2100, based on hurricanes «downscaled» from four climate models.

In other words, Joshy used an article that compared BLS revised numbers to earlier estimates of economists, not the prior BLS numbers, to try to disprove the comment I made, with two links, to show the BLS had to revise its job numbers downward in the months he claimed they had been revised upwards.

As a recent Quicken Loans Home Price Perception Index (HPPI) report shows, homeowner estimates averaged 2 percent higher than those of appraisers — a considerable margin in markets with ballooning home values, says Quicken Loans Chief Economist Bob Walters.

Economists at the National Association of Realtors estimate that the tax changes could whack 10 percent off average prices around the country, with declines steeper in states with higher home costs and tax burdens, lower in areas with more moderate prices and taxes.