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'There Is Still So Much Infosys in Me', in Rediff
News Release
May 8, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Shows Sarbanes-Oxley Act Had Short-Lived Effect on Small Businesses.
Research Brief
This research brief summarizes a multi-year examination of consumer decisionmaking in the individual insurance market in California.
Journal Article
To what extent can the elderly readily find suitable jobs? In the context of a theoretical job search model, we examine the decision to search for a job and the probability of transitioning to employment using a large sample of non-workers from the Health and Retirement Study.
Journal Article
There are 400 million retail marijuana purchases in the U.S. each year and the average purchase size is small, about six or seven joints.
Research Brief
This research brief summarizes a study to assess which policies can prevent or mitigate the adverse consequences of two trends currently occurring across Europe: falling birth rates and ageing population.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff: Puts & Calls: Concerns Over U.S.-China Trade Deficit Are Overblown in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Published commentary by RAND staff.
Journal Article
Uses random-assignment experimental data from Canada's SSP to review impacts of this reform on the distributions of income, earnings, and transfers.
Report
Examines the conditions for a successful corporate bond market in China.
Report
Examines the central issues in the debate over whether to extend, modify, or end the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, which requires insurers to make terrorism coverage available to commercial policyholders
Commentary
When the European Council meets at the end of March, European leaders may decide to lift the European Union's 15-year-old embargo on weapons transfers to China, which U.S. and European policy makers imposed in 1989 after the Chinese military's violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing.
Journal Article
This paper reviews the most pertinent theoretical and recent empirical contributions to the literature on worksharing. The results show a positive direct effect on employment of a reduction in working hours. However, taking into account indirect effects, in particular the upward effects on wages, the authors find that the long-run effect becomes small and insignificant.
Journal Article
The authors find that the magnitude of welfare loss from these blocked transactions would be highest for consumers who are relatively poor.
Journal Article
Street Drug Markets in Inner-City Neighborhoods: Matching Policy to Reality
Commentary
A chronological list of commentaries authored by RAND staff and published in newspapers and magazines worldwide.
Commentary
IBM's recent announcement of layoffs at its U.S. semiconductor plant sounds strangely familiar, bringing back memories of when I started my career as a U.S. government policy analyst in the early 1980s. At that time, I found myself in the midst of a great swirl of concern about the technological ascendancy of Japan.
News Release
The United States will continue to lead the information technology revolution for years to come because U.S. businesses are focused on innovation, Americans readily accept change, and the U.S. government provides an environment hospitable to IT business development, a RAND report issued today predicts.
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