Job Search on the Internet, E-Recruitment, and Labor Market Outcomes September 23, 2010
Examines the role of the Internet in the job search process and its impact on labor market outcomes.
All Pardee RAND students complete a policy-relevant dissertation aimed at tackling the most pressing policy issues facing the world. Many Pardee RAND dissertations are partially- or fully-funded through endowed dissertation awards and other prizes.
Examines the role of the Internet in the job search process and its impact on labor market outcomes.
Examines if the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research program positively influences commercial viability and what is the most effective means of evaluating this question.
Studies price-setting behavior in the retail gasoline industry.
Analyzes North Korea's Decision-making process regarding its nuclear programs with two choice models -- Rational Choice and Cognitive Choice -- and suggest effective/adaptive/robust deterrence strategy for the ROK-US combined forces.
Defines methods, principles, and tools to help groups agree on multi-perspective strategic decision making.
Discusses the possibility that states which share a common constructed identity can better coordinate their international agendas.
Addresses issues related to public policies that encourage the extension of working lives of the elderly in the United States.
Unlike most empirical cross-country analysis of the determinants of innovation, which focus mainly on developed countries, this study analyzes the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Studies the social structures and dynamics of human networks: how peers at the micro level and physical environments at the macro level interact with the individual preferences and attributes and shape social dynamics.
Investigates whether an upcoming class of health information technology can be used to address currently outstanding issues in the quality and cost of healthcare delivery.
Considers proposals to augment the existing flood-damage protection system in New Orleans with “nonstructural” risk mitigation programs focused on single-family homes.
Three essays explore the implicit private costs of improving vehicle fuel efficiencies, the private benefits and social impacts of electric vehicles, and the implications of a large-scale adoption of electric vehicles for transportation finance.
Examines the contribution of family, school, and neighborhood factors to the racial achievement gap in education.
Evaluates the impact of elementary school policies on child health behaviors and obesity in the United States.
Explores why Hispanic children are enrolled in preschools and early childhood centers in lesser proportions than children of other races and ethnicities.
Examines the effects of family process variables (specific things families do) and family status variables (who families are) on the academic achievement and nonacademic outcomes of students, both in the United States and internationally.
Examines an assessment methodology treating public diplomacy not as a series of discrete programs, but as a coordinated system of producing USG-preferred frames emphasizing or de-emphasizing specific elements of current or future U.S. policies.
Addresses hypertension prevention and medical product safety in China and the United States.
Assesses the effectiveness of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) in improving relationships among its members.
Examines self-employment among older workers.
Three essays, each on one emerging public health issue that calls for new policy making.
Investigates two mechanisms by which governments may influence pharmaceutical research and development priorities: (1) public funding for life sciences research; and (2) prescription drug insurance, as in Medicare Part D.
Identifies a robust set of facility locations for the Air Force to place combat support basing materiel that will cover a broad range of potential missions (e.g., training, humanitarian, and major combat operations) that may occur around the world.
Evaluates the long-term impacts of AmeriCorps service on participants, particularly in the areas of civic engagement, future volunteerism, appreciation of diversity, and a number of other job and life skills.
Presents a methodology to design strategies for detecting terrorist weapon development and shows how it might be used to detect development of improvised explosive devices and radiological dispersal devices.