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Essentials of Applied Econometrics prepares students for a world in which more data surround us every day and in which econometric tools are put to diverse uses. Written for students in economics and for professionals interested in continuing an education in econometrics, this succinct text not only teaches best practices and state-of-the-art techniques, but uses vivid examples and data obtained from a variety of real world sources. The book’s emphasis on application uniquely...
| Автор | J. Edward Taylor |
Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But what does a fair-trade label signify? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. Based on extensive research in Zapotec indigenous communities in Oaxaca, <I>Brewing Justice</I> follows the members of the cooperative Michiza, whose...
| Автор | Daniel Jaffee |
What is the System Protection's sustainability risk? What threat is System Protection addressing? What System Protection modifications can you make work for you? Are System Protection vulnerabilities categorized and prioritized? Can you identify any significant risks or exposures to System Protection third- parties (vendors, service providers, alliance partners etc) that concern you? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States.  <BR /><BR /><I>The Big Rig</I> explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and...
| Автор | Steve Viscelli |
How can you become the company that would put you out of business? When a Basic Email Security manager recognizes a problem, what options are available? How can you improve performance? How will you know that the Basic Email Security project has been successful? Have you made assumptions about the shape of the future, particularly its impact on your customers and competitors? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and accessible introduction to data mining, Paul Attewell and David B. Monaghan discuss how data mining substantially differs from conventional statistical modeling familiar to most social scientists. The authors...
| Автор | Paul Attewell |
Which Business behavior data should be retained? What Business behavior data should be collected? What is the kind of project structure that would be appropriate for your Business behavior project, should it be formal and complex, or can it be less formal and relatively simple? Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and social media has changed forever the way we talk about Business behavior, how do you gain traction? Is there a Business behavior Communication plan covering...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government taxing and spending harms the economy, but where is that point? In this accessible book, best-selling authors Jeff Madrick, Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, and Peter Lindert try to answer whether our government can grow any larger and examine how we can optimize growth and...
| Автор | Jeff Madrick |
How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors that explain the presence of unskilled immigrants in our midst. Focusing on Los Angeles, the capital of today's immigrant America, this hard-hitting book elucidates the other side of the...
| Автор | Roger Waldinger |
What knowledge, skills and characteristics mark a good Cost of labor project manager? What Cost of labor services do you require? How sensitive must the Cost of labor strategy be to cost? How do you mitigate Cost of labor risk? What Cost of labor coordination do you need? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time,...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an...
| Автор | Adam Hochschild |
What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that Funds management brings? Record-keeping requirements flow from the records needed as inputs, outputs, controls and for transformation of a Funds management process, are the records needed as inputs to the Funds management process available? Who are the Funds management improvement team members, including Management Leads and Coaches? Among the Funds management product and service cost to be estimated, which is considered...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results are potentially erroneous has made those conducting social science research more determined to ensure the underlying research is sound.  <I>Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research</I> is the first book to summarize and synthesize new approaches to combat false positives and...
| Автор | Edward Miguel |
What do you measure to verify effectiveness gains? What was the context? What are the top 3 things at the forefront of your Cash handling system agendas for the next 3 years? What is the extent or complexity of the Cash handling system problem? Is there any existing Cash handling system governance structure? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. ...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Create, Produce, Consume explores the cycle of musical experience for musicians, professionals, and budding entrepreneurs looking to break into the music industry. Building on the concepts of his previous book, Making Money, Making Music, David Bruenger provides readers with a basic framework for understanding the relationships between the artist and audience and the producer consumer by examining the methods underlying creation-production-reception and creation-consumption-compensation. Each...
| Автор | David Bruenger |
What are your results for key measures or indicators of the accomplishment of your Green Infrastructure for Water Management strategy and action plans, including building and strengthening core competencies? Is the suppliers process defined and controlled? What are your personal philosophies regarding Green Infrastructure for Water Management and how do they influence your work? Is special Green Infrastructure for Water Management user knowledge required? How are training requirements...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Acorn woodpeckers unite in marriages of up to ten mates and raise their young cooperatively. Ground...
| Автор | Kate Marianchild |
How do you verify and develop ideas and innovations? Where can you gather more information? How do you measure efficient delivery of Parameterized testing services? What are the costs and benefits? Why is Parameterized testing important for you now? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
From his galvanizing exposés in <i>Ramparts</i> magazine to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle upended twentieth-century investigative reporting and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first career-spanning collection of writings by this key figure of American journalism, <i>Ransoming Pagan Babies</i> ranges an astonishing thematic sweep: Joseph Mitchell-esque portraits of old San Francisco and its characters; insightful reporting on conflicts in...
| Автор | Warren Hinckle |
Do you aggressively reward and promote the people who have the biggest impact on creating excellent Document Engineering services/products? Is the Document Engineering documentation thorough? What are the operational costs after Document Engineering deployment? Is it clear when you think of the day ahead of you what activities and tasks you need to complete? What are the potential basics of Document Engineering fraud? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, «Get a trade.» Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white...
| Автор | Deirdre Royster |
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
For the past several decades, politicians and economists thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But because America’s middle class is now so weak, the US economy suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. As <I>Hollowed Out</I> explains, to have strong, sustainable growth, the economy needs to work for everyone and expand from the middle out. This new thinking has the potential to supplant trickle-down economics—the theory that...
| Автор | David Madland |
This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, <I>Hard Work </I>explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America. <br /><br /><I>Hard Work </I>begins with...
| Автор | Rick Fantasia |