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Analysis of the structure of the Mexican economy indicates that information and policy instruments available to the government, although seemingly crude and inaccurate, are sufficient to achieve a reasonable degree of macroeconomic stability. Since ...
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Attempts to develop a methodology for answering some important but usually ignored questions about the potential supply of applicants for public employment programs. The practical methodology which is outlined can be used to estimate the size and co...
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This document was prepared as testimony before the City of New York Commission on Human Rights during their public hearings on employment discrimination against individuals with arrest and conviction records, held at the New York University Law Cente...
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Examines the relationship between health insurance and the demand for regulation or compulsory planning for hospitals. Reimbursement insurance has caused an increase in the demand for and price of medical services, resulting in concern about efficie...
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Describes two examples of how our understanding of the migration process has been broadened by the Social Security Work History Sample. In the first, the sample is used as a longitudinal register from which individual migration histories can be deve...
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Spectral analysis is a useful tool for a limited set of economic hypotheses--those for which frequency-domain interpretation is plausible, behavior across frequencies is not consistent, and the primary frequencies do not largely determine the amount ...
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Examines the relationship between stock returns and the money supply to clarify the apparent contradiction between Sprinkel's 1964 quantity theory, in which money supply changes are reflected in stock prices and more recent developments in the busine...
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Suggests research hypotheses for five puzzles of policy importance arising at a recent conference. The puzzles are: (1) Is the relaxation of restrictive cultural, religious, and social taboos during development a result of identifiable changes in pe...
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An econometric analysis of criteria for choosing multination trade groupings, in those cases where such groupings are believed to be advantageous. Customarily, these groupings are based on regional criteria that stress geographic proximity as a means...
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Group medical practice is often urged, to lower health care costs and improve quality; but the claimed advantages do not apply to fee-for-service, single-specialty physician groups that share costs without prepayment plans. In a sample of 20 such gro...
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A critique of a 2-year effort by the U.S.-South Vietnamese Joint Development Group (JDG) postwar environment planning.
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A summary of ideas that may be useful in seeking new contracts and preparing proposals. Coming from a seminar on "How To Start and Operate a Small Business," the author outlines 5 main points: plan the product; research the market; assemble the tea...
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Projects a postwar South Vietnam controlled by Hanoi's Communist regime.
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The computer is often touted as the potential savior of organizations finding themselves inundated by paperwork--a position in which the courts find themselves today. Some examples of information systems for court use are presented that illustrate v...
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A highly selective bibliography on the distribution of income and wealth, 1945-1970, heavily weighted in both distribution theory and narrative accounts of the American experience. Part I is a brief listing of bibliographies. Part II lists books an...
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An argument for bridging the information gap between policymakers and academicians. The researcher faces many problems in bringing his material before the policymaker--e.g., policymakers' lack of time and ignorance of quantitative methods. It is pr...
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Severe problems of congestion and delay have existed in both criminal and civil courts throughout the country for many years. Only in the last few years, however, have the techniques of operations research been applied to the effective administratio...
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Because the 1970s will see accelerated changes from technology toward humanism, management systems will also change. We must learn to deal with more complex social values; work in an increasingly political environment; and deal with organizational i...
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Review of the history of relations between the Vietnamese Highlanders and the central government since 1955 and recommendations concerning the role of the Highlanders in future economic development.
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Increased computing capacity and flexibility have stimulated and shaped the development of modern economics by permitting formal theory to be applied to large databases.
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