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Comprises twenty papers presented at the 4th Meeting of the EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies). This work addresses the developments in the theory and applications of transportation science, particularly those based on OR methods such as optimisation, mathematical programming, stimulation, and artificial intelligence.

Provides an international comparative study on the world of adult learning activities. This book offers a systematic attempt to provide empirical information on some critical issues regarding the transformation of adult and continuing education in post-industrial societies.

Brings together research about the academic effects and policy implications of the school reform known as parental choice. This book discusses the topic of choice in education, in terms of why, when, where and how, if at all, it should be implemented. It contains 14 original papers written by scholars from Israel, UK, the United States and Canada.

Explores global and cross-national influences on assessment systems and their likely development. This work gives an analysis of international trends, its treatment of national systems and the effects of international agencies' activities, and in applying theories drawn from economics, politics, sociology, statistics and psychology to the subject.

Extending the claims made in "Knowing Educational Administration", this book demonstrates how a post-positivist science of administration can deal with traditional and vexed issues in the field of educational administration. It begins the task of extending the authors' ideas into more applied domains.

Tackles some of the unresolved issues in international trade. This book examines issues such as: the continuing controversy over NAFTA; globalised trade policy agreements vs local trade agreements; global leadership; the development and impact of the WTO; the single European market; trade controls; transition economies; and more.

The role of an airport within the air transport system used to be largely incontestable. This book examines various pressures in order to identify changes that are required to the airport planning process. It discusses such issues as: forecasting in an uncertain world; airport market share; airline network choices; and more.

The North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect on 1st January 1994. In order to understand the implications and challenges of NAFTA on both a domestic and international level, this book examines the corporate, managerial and financial consequences for the participating countries (United States, Canada and Mexico.

Why should standards of education be monitored? Which are the major steps to be undertaken in setting and monitoring cognitive and affective achievement standards? Which indicators can be used and, how should they be measured? This book aims to add fuel to this ongoing debate by answering such questions.

Contains papers examining issues concerning the effects of national and international institutional factors on corporate governance and performance. This volume focuses on the relevance of national business systems alongside industrial and institutional infrastructure to assess the efficacy of corporate governance regimes.

Demographic changes (dropping birth rates, decline in population growth and rapid population aging), their economic implications, and possible policy responses are the subject matter of this volume. It draws on international experience to address these issues, but focuses on the experience of Japan, the country with the world's oldest population.

Investigates the impact of three equal cost alternative labour market policies on the economic well-being of low-income families and society in general at the turn of the 21st century. This title focuses on how changes in the minimum wage, Earned Income Tax Credit, and payroll taxes influence the well-being of low-income American families.

This book investigates the impact of USA patent activity on technical change in 35 industries given in the KLEM (Jorgenson, 1996) data set for the period 1958-1996. Four patent variables are introduced, namely total patent applications, total patents granted, unsuccessful patent applications and foreign patents granted.

This is a collection of papers from a conference in honor of J. Michael Finger on the occasion of his retirement from the World Bank. It covers a number of important issues in the analysis of policy reform and the political economy of policy reform including policy learning and the role of international agencies in policy reform.

Addresses the question, "How do people maintain their personal relationships?" This volume discusses the everyday processes used to maintain an on-going relationship. It looks at interpersonal communication, social-psychological factors relevant to maintenance, and the resolution of conflict.

This volume focuses on how libraries have been changed by electronic communication of information and knowledge. his volume not only covers digital trends but also looks at issues of significance to librarians today in the areas of reference and management in its last three papers.

The damaging environmental impact of urban transport is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. This book was commissioned with the aim of helping to develop those solutions by sharing experience from around the world.

Examines the behavioural foundations, often simplistic, that have limited land-use and transportation models in the past, and recommends alternative assumptions, frameworks and methods. This work includes the ways to measure and represent the processes of decision-making that lead to the organisation of human activities in time and space.

Based on selected papers presented at the triennial IATBR (International Association for Travel Behavior Research) conference in August 2003.

Educational Technology is seen as a problem-solving process, concerning most aspects of teaching and learning through media and technology, in the context of education and training. This volume presents information on various aspects of educational technology.

Aims to review and discuss the different varieties of macro modelling of economic policies. This book also attempts to analyze policy themes that are important in Finland and elsewhere. Its last set of papers analyze exchange rate policies in Finland and issues in European Economic Integration.

The Personal Income Tax

Describes the development of competition policy in 10 EU Member States, and the interaction of those policies with EU competition policy. This work includes the convergence of competition policy to the EU approach and the influence of Member State practice on EU competition policy. It analyzes its functioning from an economic point of view.

This volume encourages comparative explorations of the links between economic regionalism and government behaviour. Theories of the public sector are reviewed, restructured and extended, and historical and institutional perspectives on the public sector examined in empirical case studies from Sweden, USA, Belgium, Malaysia, England and Singapore.

These papers demonstrate how different kinds of analytical approach can be used to anticipate the economic repercussions of systematic reduction of military spending. It is of interest to economists, scholars in peace studies and international relations, and government officials dealing with disarmament issues and economic restructuring.

The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. It contains international comparisons between EU and OECD countries, in particular with regard to productivity performance.

Part of the "Current Topics" series, this work contains seventeen chapters divided into six sections. They are labelled: Organization Theory, Organizational Behavior, Trust, Morality, and Ethics, Organizational Development and Innovation, International Management, and Concluding Comments.

Contains 11 papers on a range of related topics including the estimation of possibly misspecified error component and fixed effects panel models, estimation and inference in possibly misspecified quantile regression models, and quasi-maximum likelihood estimation of linear regression models with bounded and symmetric errors.

With an overview by the editors, this 22nd volume comprises a set of nine papers on longstanding foundation and emerging topics in the field of human resources management.

This volume attempts to construct a theory of black intellectualism drawing on the areas of culture, politics, class and myth. Both mainstream and radical black intellectual thought are charted and defined, and the dialectics of nationalism and internationalism are examined.