LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gary burtless

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gary burtless

  • Does Money Matter?
    Gary Burtless
    'Many believe that American education can only be improved with a sizable infusion of new resources into the nation's schools. Others find little evidence that large increases in spending lead to improvements in educational performance. Do additional school resources actually make any difference?The evidence on this question offers a striking paradox. Many analysts have fo...
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  • Growth with Equity
    Gary Burtless / Martin Neil Baily / Robert E. Litan
    For nearly two decades the U.S. economy has been plagued by two disturbing economic trends: the slowdown in the growth rates of productivity and average real wages and the increase in wage and income inequality. The federal budget is in chronic deficit. Imports have far exceeded exports for more than a decade. American competitiveness has been a source of concern for even longe...
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  • Future of Lousy Jobs?
    Gary Burtless
    'Politicians, journalists, and the public have expressed rising concern about the decline—or percieved decline—in middle-class jobs. The U.S. work force is viewed as increasingly divided between a prosperous minority that enjoys ever-rising wages and a less affluent majority that struggles harder each year to make ends meet.To determine whether and why this view of th...
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    34,28 €

  • Can America Afford to Grow Old?
    Barry P. Bosworth / Gary Burtless / Henry Aaron
    Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population. ...
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    24,22 €

  • Work, Health, and Income Among the Elderly
    Gary Burtless
    Contents include: Introduction and Summary Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality Aging the Ability to Work: Policy Issues and Recent Trends Occupational Effects on the Health and Work Capacity of Older Men Involuntary Early Retirement and Consumption Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Social Security: A Time-Series Analysis Life Insurance of the Elderly: Its Adequa...
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    41,96 €