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Training the 21st Century Police Officer: Redefining Police Professionalism for the Los Angeles Police Department — Jan 1, 2003

The authors suggest that the first essential step to improving Los Angeles Police Department training is to establish and communicate a common foundation for police performance.

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Users’ Guide for the Compensation, Accessions, and Personnel Management (CAPM) Model — Jan 1, 2003

A users' manual for the Compensation, Accessions, and Personnel Management (CAPM) system describes the CAPM user interface and discusses the various notebooks used in the software, the settings and options available when using them, and how to inspect the output of model runs.

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A New Tool for Compensation, Accessions, and Personnel Management in the U.S. Military — Jan 1, 2003

RAND's Project AIR FORCE and its National Defense Research Institute developed a personal computer software tool called the Compensation, Accessions, and Personnel Management (CAPM) system.

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Making the LAPD a Model for Training Police Officers in the 21st Century — Jan 1, 2003

This research brief describes work documented in Training the 21st Century Police Officer: Redefining Police Professionalism for the Los Angeles Police Department (MR-1745-LAPD).

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• Public Safety Research Area

Journal Article

The Effect of Male Wage Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage — Jan 1, 2002

Growing wage inequality appears to have had little effect on the marriage behavior of less-educated black women.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

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Ensuring Successful Personnel Management in the Department of Homeland Security — Jan 1, 2002

Identifies the characteristics of effective personnel management to help the new Department of Homeland Security develop its HR system.

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Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality of Males in the United States: 1967-1991 — Jan 1, 2001

The author examines how these trends are related to changes in the distribution of wages and hours and the returns to education.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

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Investing in the Future: Reducing Poverty Through Human Capital Investments — Jan 1, 2001

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• Population and Aging Research Area

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The Value of Remaining Lifetime Is Close to Estimated Values of Life — Jan 1, 2001

Workers under 50 on average will spend 10-20% of their future hours working.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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Income and Mental Health: Unraveling Community and Individual Level Relationships — Jan 1, 2001

Explores the relationships between mental disorders and socioeconomic status and environment and find a strong association between individual income and mental health.

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Workforce Development in Emerging Industries — Jan 1, 2000

Workforce Development in Emerging Industries

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A Study of Overhead Rate Behavior at a U.S. Air Force Base in the Context of A-76 Competitions — Jan 1, 2000

This dissertation discusses the benefits and risks of outsourcing and presents a model for estimating overhead savings resulting from outsourcing such activities.

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Military Compensation in the Age of Two-Income Households: Adding Spouses' Earnings to the Compensation Policy Mix — Jan 1, 2000

Analysis of Current Population Survey data and the 1992 DoD Survey of Officers, Enlisted Personnel, and their Spouses demonstrate that the spouses of soldiers and airmen incur the heaviest burden of earnings penalty due to service specific factors.

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Interagency and International Assignments and Officer Career Management — Jan 1, 1999

Provides RAND'S assessment of the feasibility and advisability of establishing a cadre of officers whose assignments and schooling would ensure a viable career track in which these officers would serve in interagency and international assignments.

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Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review — Jan 1, 1998

Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

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Foxholes and Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces — Jan 1, 1998

This insightful study chronicles the progress made over the last 50 years with the desegregation of the U.S. military.

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Strategic Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from Economics and Business Management — Jan 1, 1997

Strategic Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from Economics and Business Management

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Outsourcing of DoD Commercial Activities: Impacts on Civil Service Employees — Jan 1, 1997

Develop recommendations for improving the productivity of the civil service workforce (making it more competitive in outsourcing cost-comparison studies) and making the cost-comparison process fairer to government employees.

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Relating Resources to Personnel Readiness: Use of Army Strength Management Models — Jan 1, 1997

The connection between resources and readiness is receiving heightened interest at a time when a more austere defense budget and reduced force structures coincide with a range of security challenges.

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DoD Outsourcing: How Civil Service Employees Fare — Jan 1, 1997

What factors affect the competitiveness of civil service employees in the cost-comparison process used to evaluate outsourcing possibilities; and what are the impacts of past and future outsourcings on civil service employees?

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