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This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the United States at home and around the globe...

This wide-ranging volume brings together the commissioned papers that are the basis of James O' Toole and Edward E. Lawler' s "The New American Workplace," their follow-up to the groundbreaking 1973 "Work in America" report. Here leading scholars in the fields of business, management, and human...

This report examines the consequences of a disabling workplace injury for workers at 68 private self-insured employers in California from 1991-5. Using employer-provided data, it estimates the earnings losses associated with a disability and the post-injury employment patterns of claimants

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Opening Telecom Markets: The 1996 Telecommunications Act -- Chapter 3. The First Eight Years under the New Law -- Chapter 4. Local Competition under the 1996 Act -- Chapter 5. Effect of...