Tag Archives: Maine

In Maine, Coincident Index slows, but job growth remains strong

From the Philadelphia Fed: The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has released the coincident indexes for the 50 states for September 2014. In the past month, the indexes increased in 43 states, decreased in four, and remained stable in three, for a one-month diffusion index of 78. Over the past three months, the indexes increased in […]

Do Colleges and Universities Increase Their Region’s Human Capital?

TO follow up two previous posts regarding job growth and educational attainment.  Succinctly, increasing the educational attainment of a workforce alone will not boost job growth unless there is adequate demand for labor is there.  To reinforce that, the following is the abstract from a 2011 paper authored by Jaison Abel and Richard Deitz (my emphasis): […]