Under current projections, payroll tax revenues and accumulated interest in the Social Security trust fund will be insufficient to pay scheduled benefits when workers entering the labor force today reach retirement age. Given this outlook, three policy options for slowing future benefit growth...

Service centers work with customers to ensure that raw materials will be delivered “when needed, as needed,” and processed to the dimensions required.

There has been considerable debate in Australia concerning the social and economic effects of telecommunications carrier investment in broadband network infrastructure. Whether particular groups within networked communities are unable or unwilling to subscribe to broadband services is an...

This study estimates a nested multinomial logit (NMNL) model of broadband delivered entertainment service subscription that allows for the impact of an installation fee and rental price, service attributes and household demographic variables on subscription. The model is estimated on...

Much recent debate concerns the effect of carrier roll-out on access to networked services. However, whether particular groups within passed communities are unable or unwilling to subscribe to networked services is also an important policy issue. This paper sets out to identify households that...

The recent roll-out of fibre-optic cable suggests that the willingness of households in passed communities to subscribe to networked services is an important issue. This paper studies the determination of the demand for network subscription. Through a discrete choice model the effect of...