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Creating good jobs :an industry-based strategy
Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking. Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home constru…
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Minimum wages
This is a comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labour market outcomes, and concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.;Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increa…
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Structures of scientific collaboration / of Scientific Collaboration
How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : illustrations.
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Velvet revolution at the synchrotron Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
Change in scientific practice and its implications for the status of scientific claims, examined through an analysis of three episodes at a synchrotron laboratory.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 152 pages) : illustrations.
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Japan's bubble, deflation, and long-term stagnation
Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, and the country entered its famous “lost decade”—a period of stagnation and economic disruption that persisted until 2003. The current declines in global equity and real estate markets have eerie parallels to Japan's economic woes of the 1990s. If we are to avoid repeating Japan's experience on a global scale, we must understand what happe…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) :illustrations
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LabOratory :Speaking of Science and Its Architecture
An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026235635X
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Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance
The effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists.High unemployment in many European OECD countries has been attributed to factors ranging from rigid wages and low job mobility to an interaction of high taxes and generous social benefits that may discourage labor force pa…
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) :illustrations.
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Collective wisdom :co-creating media for equity and justice
"Collective Wisdom tracks co-creation in media-making, efforts that reach beyond limits of singular authorship, an ancient and under-documented practice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Beyond the cognitive map :from place cells to episodic memory
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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Measuring the Tax Burden on Capital and Labor
A guide to current approaches to measuring the effective tax rate, with case studies that illustrate the different methods discussed.Today's highly complicated tax codes have led economists and policy makers depend on simplified summary measures in order to understand how taxes affect the economy. Studies of the effective tax rate--that is, a measurement of the net amount of tax levied on certa…
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