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Learning While Earning: The New Normal
(2015-10)
Learning While Earning: The New Normal finds that over the last 25 years, more than 70 percent of college students have been working while enrolled. These 14 million college students face the challenge of balancing work, ...
Fiscal and Social Impact of a Nominal Exchange Rate Devaluation in Djibouti
(World Bank, 2006)
Limited fiscal space limits Djibouti's ability to meet the Millennium Development Goals and improve the living conditions of its population. Djibouti's fiscal structure is unique in that almost 70 percent of government ...
A European View of the US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(EU Institute for Security Studies, 2003)
In this Chaillot Paper, five European authors put forward their views on the role played by the European Union in attempts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the beginning of the intifada in September 2000. ...
A Failure to Communicate: What (If Anything) Can we Learn from the Negative Income Tax Experiments
(Elsevier, 2005)
The U.S. and Canadian governments conducted five negative income tax experiments between 1968 and 1980. The labor market findings of these experiments were an advance for understanding the effects of a basic income guarantee, ...
Foundations of the Consensus against Surrogacy Arrangements in Islamic Law
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)
This Article traces the emergence and development of the consensus against surrogacy arrangements, mostly in the Sunni world, on the basis of a number of institutional fatwas, recommendations, and decisions. Despite this ...
Frozen Political Liberalization in Jordan: The Consequences for Democracy
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)
Prompted by serious economic difficulties, in 1989 the Jordanian government launched a series of political liberalization measures aimed at rejuvenating the country's parliament and party politics, and restoring freedom ...
The Economic Value of College Majors
(2015-05)
The Economic Value of College Majors uses Census Data to analyze wages for 137 college majors to detail the most popular college majors, the majors that are most likely to lead to an advanced degree, and the economic benefit ...
The Online College Labor Market: Where The Jobs Are
(2014-04)
The Online College Labor Market: Where the Jobs Are finds that more than 80 percent of job openings for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher are posted online. This report analyzes the demand for college talent in ...
Hyponatremia is Associated with Increased Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures in Diabetics with Matched Glycemic Control: Supplemental Materials
(2018-12-04)
Purpose
Patients with diabetes mellitus are at increased risk for bone fragility fracture secondary to multiple mechanisms. Hyperglycemia can induce true dilutional hyponatremia. Hyponatremia is associated with gait ...
The (geo)political economy of Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations
(Routledge, 1996)
This study presents a review and analysis of Iraqi‐Kuwaiti relations as they developed and changed over time. It attempts to look beyond the immediate political and legal aspects of this difficult relationship, while at ...