Author: Panel on Retirement Income Modeling National Rese
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: data, research, models, needs, income, policies, retirement, assessing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-02-12
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0309056276
ISBN-13: 9780309056274

Provides a framework for retirement income modeling and summarizes the state of basic research knowledge in key areas. Recommends improvements in data sources and ways to facilitate interagency coordination. Paper.Book DescriptionThe retirement income security of older Americans and the cost of providing that security are increasingly the subject of major debate. This volume assesses what we know and recommends what we need to know to estimate the short- and long-term effects of policy alternatives. It details gaps in data and research and evaluates possible models to estimate the impact of po

Author: Panel on Retirement Income Modeling National Rese
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: behavior, retirement, knowledge, assessing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-07-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309055474
ISBN-13: 9780309055475

This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies. As the U.S. population ages, there is increasing uncertainty about the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare systems and the adequacy of private pensions to provide for people’s retirement needs. The volume covers such critical behaviors as workers’ decisions to retire, people’s choices of saving over consumption, and employers’ decisions about hiring older workers and providing pension and heal

Author: Panel on Modeling Human Behavior and Command Decis
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: military, simulations, application, behavior, human, organizational, modeling
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1998-07-31
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0309060966
ISBN-13: 9780309060967

This report represents the findings of an 18-month study conducted by the Panel on Modeling Human Behavior & Command Decision Making: Representation for Military Simulations. DLC: Psychology, Military.

Author: Switzerland) Low-Income Countries of the CIS: Prog
Publisher: Intl Monetary Fund
Keywords: countries, challenges, transition, progress, commonwealth, income, low, independent
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 158906321X
ISBN-13: 9781589063211

Author: Micro Modeling Associates Inc.
Publisher: Microsoft Pre
Keywords: one, offs, pro, solutions, commerce, microsoft
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1999-04-24
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0735605793
ISBN-13: 9780735605794

Whether your target customer is an individual consumer or another business, providing your product or service over the Internet can give your organization unprecedented availability and reach. And with MICROSOFT COMMERCE SOLUTIONS, you?ll learn how to achieve these Net gains by planning and deploying an electronic commerce system built with Microsoft technologies. Based on the real-world experiences of a Microsoft Solutions Provider Partner, this pragmatic, solutions-driven guide focuses on matching business requirements with technological capabilities?offering ready examples and proven expert

Author: Committee on Organizational Modeling: From Individ
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: societies, individuals, simulation, modeling, behavioral
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2008-06-11
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 030911862X
ISBN-13: 9780309118620

Today’s military missions have shifted away from fighting nation states using conventional weapons toward combating insurgents and terrorist networks in a battlespace in which the attitudes and behaviors of civilian noncombatants may be the primary effects of military actions. To support these new missions, the military services are increasingly interested in using models of the behavior of humans, as individuals and in groups of various kinds and sizes. Behavioral Modeling and Simulation reviews relevant individual, organizational, and societal (IOS) modeling research programs, evaluates t

Author: Panel on Engineering Employment CharacteristicsCo
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: engineering, states, series, united, education, employment, characteristics, practice
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 1985-01-01
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 0309035864
ISBN-13: 9780309035866