Labour / income economics

This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies.

Innovation, "e;the process by which firms master and get into practice product designs and manufacturing processes that are new to them,"e; is vital for companies wishing to remain competitive in today's rapidly changing high technology industries.

This book sets out technological research topics designed to facilitate and expand distributed workincluding telecommuting, working while mobile, and working in geographically distributed teams.

This book evaluates changes needed to improve the usefulness and cost-effectiveness of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

It is frequently argued that U.

This book examines the changing character of commercial technology development and diffusion in an integrated global economy and its implications for U.

Surprisingly little is known about the people responsible for advancing the science, technology, and application of computing systems, despite their critical roles in the U.

Materials are important in the pursuit of virtually every human endeavor.

"e;Pay for performance"e; has become a buzzword for the 1990s, as U.

Telecommutingpeople working at home with computers connected to offices many miles awaycould reshape the way America works.

This book includes an assessment of the global minerals and metals industry; a review of technologies in use for exploration, mining, minerals processing, and metals extraction; and a look at research priorities.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of the relationship between technology and economic growth.

Smaller, technically-oriented companies often assume types of risk (and an amount of risk) that is not often tolerated by large companies.

Various editions of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles have served as the Employment Service's basic tool for matching workers and jobs.

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Deregulation, higher costs, foreign competition, and financial risks are causing profound changes in civil aviation.

Engineers need economists' insights about the marketplace to understand how economic forces shape the environment for technological innovation.

This book describes the contributions of mathematics to the nation's advanced technology and to economic competitiveness.

On January 27-28, 1999, the NRC Commission on Life Sciences organized "e;Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Resources"e;, a conference to explore the breadth of problems and opportunities related to obtaining and transferring research resources.

Declining American competitiveness in world economic markets has renewed interest in employment testing as a way of putting the right workers in the right jobs.

This companion to Volume I presents individually authored papers covering the history, economics, and sociology of women's work and the computer revolution.

This volume examines the influences of technology and international trade policies on the troubled U.

Protecting U.

This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the United States and examines what is known about its causes and effects.

Are women paid less than men when they hold comparable jobs?

The United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number of dual-earner and single-adult families.

In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with budgets in excess of $100 million (DOD, NIH, NASA, DOE, and NSF).

When the United States' founding fathers set up a federal system of government, they asked a question that has never been satisfactorily settled: How much governmental authority belongs to the states, and how much to the national government?

An increasingly globalized world economy creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities.

This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technology policy.

This report had its origin in a Committee on National Statistics workshop in November 1993, one of a series on improving economic statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of the Census of the U.

Despite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses.

A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regional programs in order to identify best practices with regard to their goals, structures, instruments, modes of operation, synergies across private and public programs, funding mechanisms and levels, and evaluation efforts.

On January 27-28, 1999, the NRC Commission on Life Sciences organized "e;Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Resources"e;, a conference to explore the breadth of problems and opportunities related to obtaining and transferring research resources.

Innovation, "e;the process by which firms master and get into practice product designs and manufacturing processes that are new to them,"e; is vital for companies wishing to remain competitive in today's rapidly changing high technology industries.

An increasingly globalized world economy creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities.

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity.

Smaller, technically-oriented companies often assume types of risk (and an amount of risk) that is not often tolerated by large companies.

This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technology policy.

In the past six years, planned downsizing has reduced the civilian work force of the U.

This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies.

This report had its origin in a Committee on National Statistics workshop in November 1993, one of a series on improving economic statistics, jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Bureau of the Census of the U.