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Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Ред.: David Mechanic, Marian Osterweis, Arthur Kleinman
USA: National Academy Press, 1987
Pain--it is the most common complaint presented to physicians. Yet pain is subjective--it
cannot be measured directly and is difficult to validate. Evaluating claims based
on pain poses major problems for the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other
disability insurers. This volume covers the epidemiology and physiology of pain;
psychosocial contributions to pain and illness behavior; promising ways of assessing
and measuring chronic pain and dysfunction; clinical aspects of prevention, diagnosis,
treatment, and rehabilitation; and how the SSA's benefit structure and administrative
procedures may affect pain complaints.



Panel Data Econometrics [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 05-01-2003
Manuel Arellano
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
Panel data econometrics uses both time series and cross-sectional data sets that
have repeated observations over time for the same individuals (individuals can be
workers, households, firms, industries, regions, or countries). This book reviews
the most important topics in the subject. The three parts, dealing with static models,
dynamic models, and discrete choice and related models are organized around the themes
of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and modelling dynamic responses and error
components.

Опубликовано на портале: 29-11-2003
Giannis Karagiannis, Peter Midmore, Vangelis Tzouvelekas
2002
The objective of this paper is to develop a tractable approach for recovering and
quantifying all sources of TFP changes (namely, technical change, changes in technical
and
allocative efficiency, and scale economies) from the econometric estimation of an
input
distance function which also fully describes the production technology. The proposed
theoretical framework relies on Bauer’s TFP decomposition framework and the
duality
between input distance and cost functions. Hence, instead of using a system approach
to
estimate a cost frontier, all necessary information for decomposing TFP changes are
recovered from its dual counterpart.


Опубликовано на портале: 21-12-2006
Ред.: Jeff Hyman, Paul B. Thompson, Bill Harley
New-York - London: Palgrave, 2005, cерия "Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations series", 272 с.
Employee participation is a dynamic and contested area of organisational behaviour,
attracting continuing academic, practitioner and policy interest and debate. This
book will bring together a fresh, critical and comparative perspective on the full
range of participation practices, drawing on the work of leading scholars in the
field. It is inteded to honour the work of Harvie Ramsay, who died tragically in
2001 and who was a pioneering writer on participation and democracy in this field.


Опубликовано на портале: 04-01-2004
Frank Ellis
Cambridge, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 328 с.
Книга по экономике фермерских домохозяйств в развивающихся странах. Основные рассматриваемые
темы – эффективность, риск, распределение времени, род, сельскохозяйственные
контракты, размер фермерских хозяйств и технологические изменения. Дополненное издание
содержит новые главы по экологическим проблемам, связанным с применением экстенсивных
методов ведения сельского хозяйства.



Pension Fund Capitalism [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 13-11-2007
Gordon Clark
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 368 с.
The growth of pension funds has been nothing short of astronomical. Pension funds now dominate the world's financial markets, affecting nations' wealth, community development, and industrial well being. Yet little is known about their structure and organization. Pension funds and their agents in the investment industry control enormous sums of money, profoundly affecting the structure and performance of nation-states and the global economy. At the same time, it is also apparent that many western governments are retreating from the provision of 'public good' once thought essential to the fabric of urban life. Clark agues that if we are to understand the long-term future of the western economies (in general) and our communities (in particular), we need also to understand how institutional investors allocate assets, mobilize funds, and make investment decisions. There are few studies of the relationship between pension funds and the financial services industry. Pension Fund Capitalism fills an important gap in the literature as well as the intersection between pension funds and public policy.



Опубликовано на портале: 05-02-2004
Edward Whitehouse, Richard Francis Disney
Washington, 1999, 45 с.
This Papers provide information about: model of optimal retirement, retirement savings
plan, the effect of the pension system on the return to work, partial retirement
programmes, earnings and defined-contribution pension by age, annuity rates by age
and sex, effective tax rate on working by age etc.

Опубликовано на портале: 24-11-2006
Ezra Mendelsohn
Изд-во: Oxford University Press, 2003, 288 с.
Modern urbanization is intimately linked with contemporary Jewish history, and this
volume, the fifteenth in this acclaimed series, looks at the diverse connections.
Spanning a wide range of topics, the volume includes essays on the Jewish communities
in New York and St. Petersburg, on Orthodox Jews in the city, on Jewish-Christian
relations within the urban context, on klezmer music, on the impact of urbanization
on German Jewish history, and on the first "Hebrew city," Tel-Aviv. The volume also
includes an extensive collection of reviews of recent literature on Jewish history,
culture, and society



Опубликовано на портале: 04-01-2004
Cristina Marreiros, Mitchell Ness
Zaragoza, 2002
The objectives of this paper are to examine consumers’ perceptions of Protected
Designation of Origin (PDO) beef on the basis of a survey of consumers and buyers
of beef.
The paper identifies a profile of PDO beef consumers, examines their behaviour and perceptions on PDO beef, derives the dimensions of perceptions of PDO beef, and establishes segments based upon those dimensions. The results reveal that PDO consumers are representative of all geographical regions, age and profession groups, are lighter consumers of beef and shop for food mainly in the butchers. Consumers’ perceptions on PDO beef emphasises quality, safety, and control. However, underlying those perceptions are six main dimensions and it is possible to identify three segments of PDO beef consumers: a faithful consumer group, an unaware consumer group, and a sensory, price conscious group.
The paper identifies a profile of PDO beef consumers, examines their behaviour and perceptions on PDO beef, derives the dimensions of perceptions of PDO beef, and establishes segments based upon those dimensions. The results reveal that PDO consumers are representative of all geographical regions, age and profession groups, are lighter consumers of beef and shop for food mainly in the butchers. Consumers’ perceptions on PDO beef emphasises quality, safety, and control. However, underlying those perceptions are six main dimensions and it is possible to identify three segments of PDO beef consumers: a faithful consumer group, an unaware consumer group, and a sensory, price conscious group.


Опубликовано на портале: 30-12-2003
Paul R. Milgrom, John Donald Roberts, Harold Demsetz, Douglass C. North, Gordon Tullock, Mancur OlsonРед.: A. Kenneth Shepsle, James E. Alt
Cambridge, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 278 с.
This volume serves as an introduction to the field of positive political economy
and the economic and political processes with which it is concerned. This new research
tradition is distinct from both normative and historical approaches to political
economy. Grounded in the rational-actor methodology of microeconomics, positive political
economy is the study of rational decisions in a context of political and economic
institutions. More analytical than traditional approaches, it is concerned with the
derivation of principles and propositions against which real-world experience may
be compared. Its focus is on empirical regularities, and its goal is theoretical
explanation.
The field has focused on three main areas of research: models of collective action, constraints on competitive market processes, and the analysis of transaction costs. Developments in all of these areas are covered in the book. The first part of the volume surveys the field, while the second part displays positive political economy at work, examining a variety of subjects. The final part contains essays by leading political economists on the theoretical foundations of the field.
The field has focused on three main areas of research: models of collective action, constraints on competitive market processes, and the analysis of transaction costs. Developments in all of these areas are covered in the book. The first part of the volume surveys the field, while the second part displays positive political economy at work, examining a variety of subjects. The final part contains essays by leading political economists on the theoretical foundations of the field.



Опубликовано на портале: 22-10-2007
Ред.: Dennis C. Mueller
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 688 с.
Общественный выбор или рациональная политика отличается от других подходов, изучающих
политическое поведение тем, что оно основывается на моделях, в которых рациональные
индивиды преследуют собственные интересы. В этом сборнике, состоящем из 5 частей,
дается обзор основным идеям в этой области. Сборник содержит 25 работ 13 учёных,
экономистами и политологами из Северной Америки и Европы. Авторы покрывают такие
темы как природа и оправдание существования правительства, свойства различных правил
голосования, электоральная политика в двух партийной системе и др.



Опубликовано на портале: 20-12-2006
Ред.: Peter Matanle, Wim Lunsing
Изд-во: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 288 с.
This book presents diverse perspectives on how work and employment are developing
in a rapidly changing, contemporary Japan. Using macro- and micro-level data, the
authors show both how the Japanese employment system is evolving as well as how the
meanings that individual Japanese attach to their work and employment are developing.
It is useful to anyone with an interest in work and employment in Japan, from scholars
and specialists in HRM and management, to economists, sociologists and anthropologists.



Опубликовано на портале: 25-01-2007
Ред.: Alan Zuege, Richard Westra, Makoto Itoh, Robert Albritton
New-York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, 368 с.
In this collection authors from eight different countries, representing a wide variety of academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives, investigate the differing phases of capitalist development. They offer diverse and powerful analyses of the postwar boom, economic crises and globalization within this context.



Philosophic Inquiry in Sport [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 03-10-2006
Klaus V. Meier, William J. Morgan
Champaign: Human Kinetics, 1988, 546 с.
The aim of this work is to present an anthology devoted to the philosophy of sport
covering classic and recent literature. The intended audience is undergraduate and
graduate students and scholars interested in sport in general. There are six parts.
As an avid reader of the philosophy of sport, the author "find it quite relevant
to
any interest
in parapsychology. In both parapsychology and sport the primary goal is to transcend
physical limits. Moreover, ESP and PK tests, both informal and formal, can be classed
in a game paradigm and some of them have been deliberately devised as games or forms
of competition. In this connection, the chapters in Parts II and III are especially
relevant. In PK, the analogy between parapsychology and sport is more apt. It is
my guess that at the limits of human possibility where new records are set wherein
humans transcend all previous limits and are the first to do so some form of psi
may be involved, though it is not possible to separate it from the many physical,
physiological, psychological, social, and even sociological factors involved. For
these reasons this book provides a very useful introduction to the philosophy of
sport".


Опубликовано на портале: 25-11-2006
Thomas Hall
Spon Press, 1997, 398 с.
During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major
expansion and improvement schemes. From Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of
Paris, the townscapes which emerged still shape today's cities and are an inalienable
part of European cultural heritage.In Planning Europe's Capital Cities, Thomas Hall
examines the planning process in fifteen of those cities and addresses the following
questions: when and why did planning begin, and what problems was it meant to solve?
who developed the projects, and how, and who made the decisions? what urban ideas
are expressed in the projects? what were the legal consequences of the plans, and
how did they actually affect subsequent urban development in the individual cities?
what similarities or differences can be identified between the various schemes? how
have such schemes affected the development of urban planning in general?His detailed
analysis shows us that the capital city projects of the nineteenth century were central
to the evolution of modern planning and of far greater impact and importance than
the urban theories and experiments of the Utopians.

