Entries for 'UHERO'

...after adjusting for Hawaii’s high prices, the purchasing power of income per person was the fourth lowest in the nation....

...The state’s population has been declining for the past three years, in part because of outward migration....

...the costs associated with the Jones Act are empirically important and should be taken into account by policy makers....

... NELHA Host Park generates over $100M annually ....

...Hawaii Construction Forecast....

...population decline and vacation rental crackdown place economy at risk....

...In Gallup’s annual well-being index, Hawaii occupied the #1 spot among US states for six out of the past 10 years....

...UHERO examines the economic implications of the Jones Act....

...each has seen a falloff in tourism activity and a slowing of employment growth in a number of sectors....

...The number of visitor days remains below last year’s peak, with more worrying signs from falling visitor spending. Job growth has largely stalled and income gains have receded....

...The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population: Evidence from COFA Migrants....

...the State (in 1967) and the City and County of Honolulu (in 2004) passed legislation designed to dismantle leasehold housing on private lands....

...the subsequent increase to $13 led to large reductions in hours for low wage workers of 6-7% that completely offset a 3% rise in the average hourly wages....

...Tourism challenges were not limited to the aftermath of flood and fire, but also reflected weakening in some key markets and a falloff in spending. At home, population growth has been negative for the past two years, weighing on demand....

...Diminishing economic contribution, eroding resident sentiment, and increasing congestion and stress on sites and attractions provide evidence that the current governance model is inadequate....

...We expect downward revisions in the healthcare industry and in accommodation and food services, where job gains remained lackluster throughout 2018....

...record-high visitor numbers, record-low unemployment, and ongoing—if unimpressive—income gains....

...statistically significant upward adjustments on average are observed across utilities that experienced decoupling....

“The vast majority of those businesses impacted by the City’s food waste recycling ordinance are continuing to use local piggeries to recycle their food waste.”

...Following two years of decline, the pace of building in Hawaii has stabilized. The value of construction permits is posting healthy gains across all sub-sectors this year....

...Global tourism continues to power forward, and there remains a healthy pipeline of construction work. And even with the recent labor market weakness, Hawaii continues to enjoy its lowest unemployment in many years....

...This study asks the question, how valuable is residential real-time pricing (RTP) in comparison to time-of-use (TOU) rates to absorb increasing sources of intermittent renewable energy?....

...the variability of solar and wind power makes the system-wide costs grow considerably as their share of the power mix rises....

...HTA CEO George Szegeti said “In CY2017 the convention center turned a net operating profit of $1.1 million, marking its second consecutive year of profitability.” This is surprising news, indeed....

...Tourism keeps surprising to the upside, even as visitor numbers strain infrastructure and communities....

...An analysis of factors that affect EV adoption in Hawaii....

... Dynamic pricing = 'Voluntary' rolling blackouts or brownouts.  You agree to use at certain hours and not at others ....

...Tourism has surged again in the first part of 2018, extending one of the longest periods of sustained visitor growth. Construction, while volatile month to month, also remains on a high plateau....

...Even though most respondents still think tourism brings more benefits than costs to our state, the percent of those who think otherwise has been rising for some time....

...Democrat media unanimous: 'Nothing to see here'....

...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....

...global warming is just an excuse for tax hikes and rate hikes....

...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....

...the report concludes that Hawaii is not yet at the stage of overtourism....

...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....

...number of significant condo and retail projects have wrapped up on Oahu, while fewer new buildings have broken ground, resulting in an overall reduction in construction activity and employment....

Prospects are good for continued growth in each of Hawaii’s four counties, if at a slower pace than in recent years....

...the economic outlook for Hawaiʻi, which remains favorable, despite tremendous uncertainty about future U.S. policy....

...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....

...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....

With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....

"...Trump and the Republican Congress could disrupt health care, government employment, and public services...."

...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....

Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....

Tourists used to stay in designated tourism zones like Waikiki, but now they are everywhere....

...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....

Last year nearly one in three U.S. travelers stayed in home-based accommodation units compared to one in ten in 2011....

...China (is not) as large a risk as the possibility of policy errors by the incoming Trump administration....

...presentation for the Building Industry Association of Hawaii's 2016 summit, "Still Houseless in Honolulu."....

...obesity and overweight rates increased high school educated people, while there is weak evidence that they decreased for the college educated....