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REPORT

Insights from New Recruits Help Law Enforcement Departments Refine Hiring Practices — Oct 15, 2010

The results of a nationwide survey show how understanding modern recruits can help police and sheriff's departments refine their recruitment practices and develop a workforce well suited to community-oriented policing.

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• Public Safety Research Area

REPORT

Health and wellbeing at work in the United Kingdom — Sep 14, 2009

The report presents the findings of a study undertaken for the English Department of Health in 2009 on whether health workplace interventions could improve the levels of health and wellbeing in British workplaces and the NHS in England.

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REPORT

Improving Development and Utilization of U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officers — Jul 14, 2009

The U.S. Air Force faces a shortage of general officers with the necessary experience to fill senior leadership positions in Air Force, joint, and interagency intelligence organizations and functions. This technical report presents an analysis of the competencies required for intelligence jobs and compares the qualifications in the officer supply with the qualifications that the jobs demand.

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• National Security Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Future at Work: Labor-Market Realities and the Transition to Adulthood — Dec 31, 2008

Young people making the transition from school to work in the twenty-first century in the United States and other developed economies can be expected to face a very different world of work than their parents' generation.

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• Law and Business Research Area

NEWS RELEASE

Better Efforts Needed to Track, Prevent Career-Ending Injuries Among Public Safety Workers — Dec 18, 2008

Non-fatal injuries to police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and other public safety workers are common, but little is done to track these incidents in order to improve prevention efforts.

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RESEARCH BRIEF

Certain Competencies May Help Offset Lack of Expertise in Senior Air Force Jobs — Aug 22, 2007

This research brief describes the skills senior leaders can leverage to adapt quickly to new working environments.

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• National Security Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Better Access to Family Leave Helps Working Parents of Chronically Ill Children — Jun 21, 2007

Working parents are more able to care for their chronically ill children when given greater access to federal and employer-provided time off from their jobs.

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• Children and Families Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands — Dec 31, 2006

In contrast to the believed similarity in their health outcomes, workers in different Western countries report very different rates of work disability. Using new data from the United States and the Netherlands, we offer a partial resolution to this paradox. We find that observed differences in reported work disability largely stem from the fact that Dutch respondents have a lower threshold in reporting whether they have a work disability…

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• Population and Aging Research Area

COMMENTARY

Globalization's Unequal Discontents — Dec 21, 2006

Published commentary by RAND staff: Globalization's Unequal Discontents, in Washingtonpost.com.

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COMMENTARY

America's Muslim Resource — Oct 10, 2006

Published commentary by RAND staff: America's Muslim Resource, in United Press International.

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REPORT

Police Personnel Challenges After September 11: Anticipating Expanded Duties and a Changing Labor Pool — Oct 12, 2005

Many major police departments face ongoing challenges in recruiting and retaining police officers. Heightened concern about terrorist attacks has exacerbated this problem by increasing demands on local law enforcement agencies. One way to address this is to develop a force management plan that focuses on future demand for personnel and creative sources of supply. This study outlines key issues that a local police department should address…

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Commentary: Work, Well-Being, and a New Calling for Countercyclical Policy — Dec 31, 2004

Economists in the tradition of John Maynard Keynes advocated activist countercyclical economic policies: increases in spending or decreases in taxes that are implemented during economic downturns in order to dampen business cycles. New policies took neoclassical emphases on fostering price stability, improving incentives to work and save, and increasing the potential for long-run growth.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience — Dec 31, 2004

Economic theory predicts that it should be possible to raise work effort either using sticks, such as work requirements and time limits, or carrots, such as financial incentives.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Residency Work-Hours Reform: A Cost Analysis Including Preventable Adverse Events — Dec 31, 2004

In response to proposed federal legislation, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education limited resident work-hours in July 2003.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

COMMENTARY

A Tale of Two Economies — Nov 10, 2004

Published commentary by RAND staff.

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RESEARCH BRIEF

The Future at Work: Trends and Implications — Dec 31, 2003

Trends in workforce size and composition and in the pace of technological change and economic globalization will have implications for the future of work. Employees will work in more decentralized, specialized firms; slower labor growth will encourag...

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RESEARCH BRIEF

Evaluating Options for Expanding Lateral Entry into Enlisted Military Occupations — Dec 31, 2003

Researchers developed a new framework to evaluate options for expanding lateral entry of non-prior-service personnel into enlisted, active-duty military occupations. The framework links goals of lateral entry with program design features. An exclusi...

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RESEARCH BRIEF

Managing General and Flag Officers — Dec 31, 2003

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Integrating New Tools into Information Work: Technology Transfer as a Framework for Understanding Success — Dec 31, 2003

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Depression and the Ability to Work — Dec 31, 2003

Depressed persons who work and who do not work differed across sociodemographic, health, functional, and disability factors.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area