Michael J Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1736702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2687-0103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
County-level job automation risk and health: Evidence from the United States
The impact of bus transit on employee turnover: Evidence from quasi-experimental samples
This analysis investigates the relationship between fixed-route bus transit and employee turnover using data from quasi-experimental samples. We expect that counties with fixed-route bus transit will have lower turnover rates because transit offers an affordable means of transportation to workers without automobiles, allowing these workers to reach job sites. Panel regression models and county-level data from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pe…
Does Wal‐Mart Cause an Increase in Anti‐Poverty Expenditures
Objectives This article addresses the role of Wal‐Mart Store entrance in changing expenditures on federal and state anti‐poverty transfers in the United States. Methods Using a panel of the conterminous 48 states, correcting for time and spatial autocorrelation and local government mix and policy changes. Results I find that the number of Wal‐Marts and their employment share in the retail sector have no impact on food stamps or AFDC/TANF expendit…
Cutback Management in Canada
Although since 1975 the Government of Canada has been successful in containing its expenditure growth — partly as a result of the demands for value for money in government and the political implications of the large deficit — the drive for efficiency and economy has a long history. The Budget reforms of the 1970s (such as MBO, PPB and OPMS) have been joined at the Federal level by a new Policy and Expenditure Management System based on resource “…
Evaluating evaluation in today's government’: Summary of discussions
The Treasury Board of Canada and its clients: Five years of change and administrative reform 1966–71
It is ten years since the Glassco Commission called for a drastic reduction in the numbers and in the scope of the administrative controls exercised on the departments of the federal government by the Treasury Board. But the Glassco slogan ‘Let the managers manage’ is not subtle enough to cope with the delicate question of how to give the maximum managerial freedom to departments while retaining for the Treasury Board enough supervision to satisf…
County-level job automation risk and health: Evidence from the United States
The Treasury Board of Canada and its clients: Five years of change and administrative reform 1966–71
It is ten years since the Glassco Commission called for a drastic reduction in the numbers and in the scope of the administrative controls exercised on the departments of the federal government by the Treasury Board. But the Glassco slogan ‘Let the managers manage’ is not subtle enough to cope with the delicate question of how to give the maximum managerial freedom to departments while retaining for the Treasury Board enough supervision to satisf…
Does Wal‐Mart Cause an Increase in Anti‐Poverty Expenditures
Objectives This article addresses the role of Wal‐Mart Store entrance in changing expenditures on federal and state anti‐poverty transfers in the United States. Methods Using a panel of the conterminous 48 states, correcting for time and spatial autocorrelation and local government mix and policy changes. Results I find that the number of Wal‐Marts and their employment share in the retail sector have no impact on food stamps or AFDC/TANF expendit…
The Treasury Board of Canada and its clients: Five years of change and administrative reform 1966–71
It is ten years since the Glassco Commission called for a drastic reduction in the numbers and in the scope of the administrative controls exercised on the departments of the federal government by the Treasury Board. But the Glassco slogan ‘Let the managers manage’ is not subtle enough to cope with the delicate question of how to give the maximum managerial freedom to departments while retaining for the Treasury Board enough supervision to satisf…
Evaluating evaluation in today's government’: Summary of discussions
Cutback Management in Canada
Although since 1975 the Government of Canada has been successful in containing its expenditure growth — partly as a result of the demands for value for money in government and the political implications of the large deficit — the drive for efficiency and economy has a long history. The Budget reforms of the 1970s (such as MBO, PPB and OPMS) have been joined at the Federal level by a new Policy and Expenditure Management System based on resource “…
Does Wal‐Mart Cause an Increase in Anti‐Poverty Expenditures
Objectives This article addresses the role of Wal‐Mart Store entrance in changing expenditures on federal and state anti‐poverty transfers in the United States. Methods Using a panel of the conterminous 48 states, correcting for time and spatial autocorrelation and local government mix and policy changes. Results I find that the number of Wal‐Marts and their employment share in the retail sector have no impact on food stamps or AFDC/TANF expendit…
The impact of bus transit on employee turnover: Evidence from quasi-experimental samples
This analysis investigates the relationship between fixed-route bus transit and employee turnover using data from quasi-experimental samples. We expect that counties with fixed-route bus transit will have lower turnover rates because transit offers an affordable means of transportation to workers without automobiles, allowing these workers to reach job sites. Panel regression models and county-level data from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pe…
County-level job automation risk and health: Evidence from the United States
Business (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works) · Cabinet (room (2 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Panel data (2 works) · Political science (2 works)