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Das Amerikanische Arbeitsrecht aus der Perspektive Historischer und Zukünftiger Entwicklungen
(2002-10-01)In den vergangenen 15 Jahren ließen sich im amerikanischen Kollektiv- und Individualarbeitsrecht sowohl eine Fortsetzung der früheren Trends als auch die Entstehung neuer Themenfelder beobachten.Das System des kollektiven ... -
Data for Measuring Poverty and Inequality Changes in the Developing Countries
(1994-01-01)How does income distribution change with economic growth? I distinguish between two aspects of income distribution - poverty and inequality - and discuss how to measure each. I then review what data we would want and what ... -
Data Improvement and Labor Economics
(2013-01-01)The expansion of available data for research has transformed empirical labor economics over the past generation. This paper briefly highlights some of the changes and describes a few examples of papers that illustrate the ... -
Dead-End Jobs and Youth Unemployment: Comment
(1982-01-01)[Excerpt] Charles Brown has very ambitiously attempted to analyze whether the existence of "dead-end jobs" contributes to the youth unemployment problem. He assumes that the average rate of wage growth of individuals ... -
Decent Work and Development Policies
(2003-01-01)Welcoming the shift to outcomes which he perceives in the ILO's focus on decent work, the author explores the major issues thus raised. He discusses how to make the notion of decent work more precise in operational terms, ... -
Declining PhD Attainment of Graduates of Selective Private Academic Institutions
(2005-04-08)[Excerpt] On average, the typical American citizen who received a PhD during the last 40 years did so approximately 9 years after she received her bachelor’s degree. Thus, if we divide the number of American citizens ... -
Declining Unionization, Rising Inequality: an Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner
(2003-05-01)Kate Bronfenbrenner is director of labor education research at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She worked for many years as an organizer with the United Woodcutters ... -
Deeply Within: Catholicism, Faith and History
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] In the decade I spent living with Gene Debs, I thought much about faith's relation to intellect, especially in the political realm. It was not just that a socialist in capitalist America needed faith but rather ... -
Democratizing the Trade Debate
(1998-08-01)[Excerpt] A thorough democratization of policy debates and decision-making is a precondition for progress in adding social dimensions to trade and investment regimes. Democratizing the trade debate means conceding social ... -
Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings
(2006-10-01)In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security ... -
Demographic Faultlines and Creativity In Diverse Groups
(2008-02-01)Despite the oft made argument that demographic diversity should enhance creativity, little is known about this relationship. We propose that group diversity, measured in terms of demographic faultlines, affects creativity ... -
Demographic Faultlines and Creativity in Diverse Groups
(2008-02-28)Despite the oft made argument that demographic diversity should enhance creativity, little is known about this relationship. We propose that group diversity, measured in terms of demographic faultlines, affects creativity ... -
Demystifying Endowments
(2009-07-01)[Excerpt] This year, decreases in the financial markets and reported large declines in the values of endowments at many institutions have led to numerous reports about how colleges and universities are slashing budgets, ... -
Demystifying Endowments
(2009-03-09)[Excerpt] Endowments are stocks of financial and real assets that are held by universities to generate income for both current and future operations. “True Endowments” are assets that at the time they were initially given ... -
Department Of Labor Testing: Seizing an Opportunity to Increase the Competitiveness of American Industry and to Raise the Earnings of American Workers
(1991-04-10)[Excerpt] The professionalism that the American military recently exhibited in the Persian Gulf is in no small part due to care with which it selects, assigns and trains its soldiers. The military's success in preparing ... -
Department Of Labor Testing: Seizing an Opportunity to Increase the Competitiveness of American Industry and to Raise the Earnings of American Workers
(1991-02-02)[Excerpt] Greater use of tests assessing competence in verbal, mathematical, technical arenas and in specific occupations for selecting workers will have important effects on the economy. First, the rewards for developing ... -
Deregulation and Restructuring in Telecommunications Services in the United States and Germany
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] Because of the slower pace of reform, however, Telekom also stands to learn from the mistakes made in the United States, where deregulation has led to increased inequality among consumers and workers. For consumers, ... -
Desegregating HRM: A Review and Synthesis of Micro and Macro Human Resource Management Research
(2002-10-18)Since the early 1980’s the field of HRM has seen the independent evolution of two independent subfields (strategic and functional), which we believe is dysfunctional to the field as a whole. We propose a typology of HRM ... -
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of HR Leadership Development Programs
(2005-01-01)Given today’s new market reality and rapid changes in the business world, companies need to select and develop high potential talent who can maneuver in a hypercompetitive market and ultimately fill its top-tier jobs. ... -
Despair Behind the Riots: The Impediment of Mass Immigration to Los Angeles Blacks
(1992-06-01)"Economic despair -- by all accounts – significantly fueled the recent Los Angeles rioting. Virtually ignored in all analyses, though, has been one of the root causes of the despair: the effect of the revival of mass ...
