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Barriers to Enrollment in Health Coverage in Colorado

Explores why eligible individuals are not enrolled in health insurance coverage in Colorado and makes recommendations on how Colorado can strengthen its future outreach and enrollment efforts.

Oct 6, 2014
Commentary

Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Are Scary, but Do They Work?

“Graphic warning labels” pair gruesome images with warnings about the dangers of smoking, covering anywhere from 30 to 80 percent of cigarette pack “faces” (the front and back). Do they prevent people from starting to smoke or cause current smokers to quit?

Sep 30, 2014
Project

How Much Does Lack of Full EU Integration Cost?

An analysis of the current state of play in the European free movement of goods allowed researchers to quantify costs due to a lack of full integration, drawing special attention to two sectors of the European economy: the construction materials sector and the medical devices sectors.

Sep 25, 2014
Report

Capacity Building at the Kurdistan Region Statistics Office Through Data Collection: Arabic translation

RAND worked closely with the Kurdistan Region Statistics Office to build capacity by preparing, conducting, and analyzing the first round of a survey of the regional labor force.

Aug 26, 2014
Journal Article

Are Users' Most Recent Drug Purchases Representative?

Various surveys now ask respondents to describe their most recent purchase of illicit drugs, as one mechanism through which market size can be estimated. This raises the question of whether issues surrounding the timing of survey administration might make a sample of most recent purchases differ from a random sample of all purchases.

Aug 4, 2014
Testimony

China’s Industrial Policies in Commercial Aviation Manufacturing

Until recently, the Chinese aircraft manufacturing industry produced aircraft almost exclusively for its military. As China transitions to commercial aircraft production, does it need to rethink its investments and policies to become more globally integrated and competitive?

Jul 31, 2014
Report

An Assessment of the Present and Future Labor Market in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Implications for Policies to Increase Private-Sector Employment

The study addresses the issue of improving the private-sector labor market in the Kurdistan Region–Iraq. Doing so will involve creating mechanisms by which job-seekers can develop the right skills and employers can find the employees they need.

Jun 27, 2014
Report

Why Is Veteran Unemployment So High?

Between 2000 and 2011, younger veterans were on average 3.4 percentage points more likely to be unemployed than similarly situated younger nonveterans. However, this difference falls rapidly with age and time since military separation.

Jun 25, 2014
News Release

Shortage of Cybersecurity Professionals Poses Risk to National Security

The nationwide shortage of cybersecurity professionals -- particularly for positions within the federal government -- creates risks for national and homeland security.

Jun 17, 2014
Report

Shortage of Cybersecurity Professionals Poses Risk to National Security

Demand for trained cybersecurity professionals who work to protect organizations from cybercrime is high nationwide, but the shortage is particularly severe in the federal government, which does not offer salaries as high as the private sector.

Jun 17, 2014
Dissertation

New Medical Technology Development and Diffusion: Policy Challenges and Considerations

Examines three policy issues concerning the development and diffusion of new medical technology.

Jun 16, 2014
Commentary

In Africa: U.S. Promotes Security, China Does Business

Africans require both security and economic growth. Global powers like China and the United States do not need to choose between the two when focusing their foreign policy efforts.

May 31, 2014
Report

The Anesthesiologist Workforce in 2013: A Final Briefing to the American Society of Anesthesiologists

To understand how population and health care changes affect the anesthesiologist workforce, researchers conducted a national survey of American Society of Anesthesiologists members in 2013. This report documents their findings.

May 30, 2014
Commentary

A Liberated Yuan Is Likely to Fall

Some critics claim that the People's Bank of China is contriving to weaken the yuan's value to promote Chinese exports and stimulate the country's lagging growth. But the yuan's true value may be lower than some popular estimates.

May 21, 2014
Report

Strategies for Private-Sector Development and Civil-Service Reform in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Arabic-language version

This monograph provides strategies to reemploy civil-service workers in the private sector and to increase private-sector employment in the Kurdistan Region -- Iraq.

May 13, 2014
Report

Capacity Building at the Kurdistan Region Statistics Office Through Data Collection

RAND worked closely with the Kurdistan Region Statistics Office to build capacity by preparing, conducting, and analyzing the first round of a survey of the regional labor force.

Apr 22, 2014
Report

Strategies for Private-Sector Development and Civil-Service Reform in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq

Strategies for Private-Sector Development and Civil-Service Reform in the Kurdistan Region -- Iraq

Apr 14, 2014
Commentary

The Hackers' Bazaar

Today's cyber black markets have evolved into playgrounds of financially driven, highly organized and sophisticated groups, often connected with traditional crime organizations.

Apr 11, 2014
Report

Changes in Health Insurance Enrollment Since ACA Implementation

Early evidence from a nationally representative survey suggests that the Affordable Care Act has led to a substantial increase in health coverage. Among the newly insured, most gained coverage through employer-sponsored insurance or Medicaid.

Apr 8, 2014
News Release

China Faces Several Obstacles to Building Successful Domestic Commercial Aircraft Industry

China's investment of billions of dollars in a domestic commercial aviation industry has yet to result in a commercially viable aircraft and is unlikely to do so for the foreseeable future.

Apr 4, 2014

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Commerce;
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