Product Description: To help fulfill a congressional mandate that cost estimates for major defense acquisition programs be performed by properly qualified members of the armed forces or full-time employees of the Department of Defense, RAND researchers conducted a census of the cost-estimating staff in the Air Force1s four product centers and three logistics centers...read more

Product Description: To improve the progression of students through the educational system and to improve education quality, California needs a robust data system that can track an individual student1s progress from kindergarten to college and beyond...read more

Product Description: The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) develops, acquires, and maintains most Air Force systems and is tailoring its workforce to adapt to changes in technology, weapons, and battlefield requirements. This volume is a practical guide to the main steps in analytical workforce planning and development: determining workforce demand, describing workforce supply, comparing the demand with the supply, and implementing solutions...read more

Product Description: Changes in technology and teh international siuation have changes demands placed on space and missile officers; how can the AirForce match the right person to the right job and help officers prepare properly for future jobs?

Product Description: This book represents a first effort to systematically describe the experience of immigrant women in the U.S. labor market over the past thirty years. It may come as a surprise that the United States is currently home to more immigrant women than immigrant men...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How much would it cost and what would the benefits be if blacks and Hispanics graduated from high school, went to college, and graduated from college at the same rate as non-Hispanic whites? The answer to this important question for the future of the nation is explored in this report...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The current national debate on immigration policy is especially intense in California, home to one-third of the country's immigrants. Much of this debate consists of advocates stating their views without the benefit of a nonpartisan assessment of the issue and the challenges it poses for the state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Steadily increasing immigration to California over the past thirty years has profoundly affected the state. Some observers of these changes see the extreme diversity of California's population as the harbinger of where the nation is headed in the long term...read more

Product Description: This collection presents thirteen papers by policy analysts from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus on the relationship between current and emergent migratory processes and patterns in the former Soviet Union, and current and emergent trends in political, economic, and security relations among the Soviet successor states...read more

Product Description: A revealing and surprising new study on immigration and the economy.

Product Description: The first comprehensive analysis of the performance of immigrant children and youths in U.S. schools.

Product Description: An analysis of the economic and social effects of defense downsizing.

Product Description: Examines the effects of defense downsizing on the aerospace industry.

Product Description: This report contains the summaries of a three-part project that investigated the effects of declining defense budgets on California's economy.

Product Description: This report reviews the estimates of the net fiscal costs of immigration made by several recent and well-publicized studies of immigration at the national, state, and local levels.

Product Description: Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986 after long, often intense debate. As with the debate, the intentions and provisions of the law have raised a complex set of issues and questions. Among the more complex from a policy standpoint are the ways IRCA will affect other countries and U...read more