In keeping pace with the world economic situation, after 40 years of continuous hard work, Taiwan is envied for her economic growth and economic prosperity and is known as one of the four Little Dragons in Asia. Net industrial production value increased to 41% in 1984 from 17% in 1952, while agriculture, this percentage dropped Read more about Essay on Economic Analysis of Taiwan[…]
In the same fifty-year time period from World War II to the present, when there were major changes in medical practice and in the development of medical ethics, medical education remained essentially the same. Then in the late 1980s, medical ethics was introduced as a subject of study in medical education. Some background on medical Read more about Essay on Changes in Medical Ethics Education[…]
The need for school reform and improvement of the quality of instruction was not focused solely on the critical situation confronted by Hispanic students attending New York City schools. The school system’s failure to provide meaningful education to many other groups of students became apparent, as each other group’s academic achievement was evaluated. The need Read more about Essay on The Need for School reform[…]
Medical technological advances such as those mentioned above were initially viewed as scientific breakthroughs that solved baffling medical problems. As time went on physicians, as well as other people, began to realize these medical advances were also creating baffling ethical dilemmas – for which physicians were unprepared. Medicine had been concerned with ethical issues and Read more about Essay on Changes in Medical Ethics[…]
The New York City public school system has, according to recent official estimates, a student population of 950,452. The ethnic breakdown of this population is approximately 18.5% White, 37.6% Black, 35.3% Hispanic, and 8.6% others. Forty-one percent (41%) of the Hispanic population, approximately 140,000 pupils, are classified as “limited English proficient students”, often referred to, Read more about Essay on New York City public school system[…]
Theories of “discretionary power” suggest that market power provides employers the opportunity to pursue objectives other than profit-maximizing. Such power extends employers the latitude to discriminate and pass costs on to consumers since a lack of competition severely limits consumer’s choice of alternative products. A crucial assumption of this theory is that wage rates of Read more about Thesis on Competition and Discretionary Power[…]
Since around the beginning of the 1970s, one of the main concerns of development economists has been the relationship between economic development and income distribution which had been largely neglected before. Up to the 1960s, most development economists devoted their whole attention to how to enlarge the size of the pie rather than how to Read more about Term Paper on Wage Inequality[…]
The foundation, for collective bargaining in the industry, was laid in 1936, when the industry was included under Title II of the Railway Labor Act. Accordingly, with the enactment of the CAA two years later, one of the functions of the CAB was the enforcement of the RLA in labor relations issues. A significant provision Read more about Research Paper on Collective Bargaining in Airline Industry[…]
In a move towards greater reliance on markets for setting prices, the telecommunications. Trucking and airline industries have been deregulated since the mid 1970s. The elimination of these regulations serves as a natural experiment to contrast the hiring practices of firms in markets characterized by the product market dominance of regulation, with the practices of Read more about Essay on Importance of Airline Industry[…]
Women not only are working outside the home in greater numbers, but their educational attainment, both in absolute terms and relative to men, has risen sharply since 1970. Historically, women have graduated from high school at higher rates 5 than men, but proportionately fewer women went on to college. This gap is narrowing. The proportion Read more about Essay on EDUCATION OF WOMEN[…]