Obama's achievements - saving the auto industry, fixing much of the runaway financial sector, passing a health care law that, once fully understood, will be seen as historic - are not insignificant.
As union membership has declined, old-school patronage has broken down, and tech companies have disrupted industry after industry, fixing escalators for a living is less sexy than ever.
All specifications include controls for age square, marital status, disability, visible minority status, primary earner status, spoken language, regional fixed effects for 10 provinces, and industry fixed effects for 21 categories.
All specifications include controls for age, age square, marital status, disability, visible minority status, primary earner status, spoken language, regional fixed effects for 10 provinces, location of study fixed effects, and industry fixed effects for 21 categories.
Private equity executives, as well as Mr. Romney, who left Bain in 1999, say the industry fixes troubled companies and ultimately creates jobs.
Only with such a streamlining, officials say, can the industry fix shortcomings like those in California, whose energy crisis has shown pipeline capacity to be inadequate, and in Florida, where the projected natural gas demand for 2009 is more than a third greater than the capacity of the sole existing pipeline, known as the Florida Gas Transmission.
Figure 9 includes the industry fixed effect.
However, results do not change significantly when industry fixed effects are excluded.
We control for the quality of borrowers by using region and industry fixed effects.
(4) The equations also include industry fixed effects at 21 categories.
I estimate two specifications, with and without two-digit industry fixed effects.
