Re: Competition vs. Profits in the NBA

2003-07-11 Thread Dan Lewis
The business model I floated a year or so ago (sadly on April Fool's Day) gives visiting teams a % of local revenue, based on attendance. (See http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-lewis040102.asp) That'd probably create a happy-medium between the two forces. But more to your point, I'm sta

Re: "Family" Businesses and Licensing

2003-07-11 Thread John Morrow
Another interesting question might be how does the distribution of income of children of people in these professions vary conditional on whether they go into their parents line of work controlling for socioeconomic status, etc. I would gamble there are a disproportionate number of people center

Re: "Family" Businesses and Licensing

2003-07-11 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2003-07-10, John Perich uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >In my informal experience, fathers and sons tend to work together >full-time only in professions with strict licensing or training >requirements. That's an interesting one. My first stab is that we might go about it the other way. Why do s

Re: "Family" Businesses and Licensing

2003-07-11 Thread zgocheno
> In my informal experience, fathers and sons tend to work together > full-time only in professions with strict licensing or training > requirements. Electricians, lawyers, realtors and even CPAs - > I've found more father/son teams here than in any other type of > job. All of those jobs have

Re: "Family" Businesses and Licensing

2003-07-11 Thread Eric Crampton
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, John Perich wrote: > > In my informal experience, fathers and sons tend to work together > full-time only in professions with strict licensing or training > requirements. Electricians, lawyers, realtors and even CPAs - I've There are zero licensing requirements for farming.