Author: Christine Eibner
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: worse, small, firms, insurance, health, burden, providing, economic
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833044117
ISBN-13: 9780833044112

More than 60 percent of nonelderly Americans receive health-insurance (HI) coverage through employers, either as policyholders or as dependents. However, rising health-care costs are leading many to question the long-term viability of the employer-based insurance system. Concerns about the economic burden of providing HI are particularly acute for small businesses, which are both less likely than larger firms to offer HI and more sensitive to price when deciding to offer insurance. Small firms may have difficulty containing costs due to their limited bargaining power and their inability to hir

Authors:Frank Camm, Irv Blickstein, Jose Venzor
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: defense, lessons, secretary, office, department, large, service, acquisitions, recent
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035266
ISBN-13: 9780833035264

At the request of the Directorate of Acquisition Resource and Analysis in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the RAND Corporation undertook a study to identify policy issues relevant to large service acquisitions that deserve closer OSD attention and to help OSD frame new policy on services acquisition. This report documents the findings of these efforts. It includes six case studies that represent a broad range of new approaches to services acquisition and that identify high-level policy issues in which OSD is likely to become involved. Perhaps the most important general finding is

Author: Robert Bowie Johnson
Publisher:
Keywords: independent, publisher, press, small, basics, guide, publishing
Published: 2006
eBookDB-ID: B0018DNFJ6

While the printing process has changed dramatically over the past twenty years, the process of buying and selling printing has not changed much at all over the last hundred. The large conglomerate book printers print for the large conglomerate publishers. The second-tier book printers crave work from the same publishers that do business with the larger printers. They send their salesmen out to attract what they call “quality” publishers, ones that produce 50 to 100 titles per year. So where does that leave the small press and independent self publishers? Too often they start out by taking the

Authors:Lynn E. Davis, J. Michael Polich, William M. Hix,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: sustained, operations, forces, army, thin, stretched
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833038168
ISBN-13: 9780833038166

The United States faces very difficult trade-offs in responding to the demanding calls now being made on Army forces for overseas operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This report describes the effects of large-scale deployments on the Army

Authors:Michael S. Chase, Kevin L. Pollpeter, James C. Mu
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: investment, across, taiwan, strait, technology, information, economic, political, implications, flow, shanghaied
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036319
ISBN-13: 9780833036315

The flows of trade and investment across the Taiwan Strait have increased dramatically in recent years, driven in large part by the increasing integration of the information technology (IT) sectors of Taiwan and the People

Authors:Mark V. Arena, John Birkler, John F. Schank, Jess
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: progress, agency, accurately, monitor, procurement, defence, shipbuilding, programmes, monitoring
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833036602
ISBN-13: 9780833036605

As part of the annual assessment of its large projects, the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), part of the UK Ministry of Defence, measures

Author: americagov
Publisher: eBookDB.org
Keywords: brief, economy, usa
Number of Pages: 78
Published: 2007-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB0301US

This mini-publication discusses the factors that make the U.S. economy the world’s most productive, competitive, and influential. It focuses on workers and productivity, small and large business, the service economy, goods and services, the role of government, and the concept of "creative destruction," the process where jobs, companies, entire industries come and go because of their success or failure in the marketplace. USA Economy in Brief includes colorful charts to illustrate, for instance, U.S. annual exports and imports and the U.S. trade deficit.