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"Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is today mainly remembered for its starring role in the Hollywood film The Flight of the Phoenix. This book provides a comprehensive history of the C-82, detailing each of the 224 aircraft built, with technical diagrams, multiple appendices and photos"--Provided by publisher

Intro -- PAYING OUR WAY - TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION FINANCE -- PAYING OUR WAY - TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION FINANCE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PAYING OUR WAY:A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSPORTATION FINANCE -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Steering Our Nation's Transportation System Back Into The Black -- Summary Findings and Recommendations -- Roots of the Problem and Widening Investment GAP-Background -- Searching for Solutions-The Financing Commission's Charge and Deliberative Process -- Guiding Principles to Shape a New Funding and Finance Framework -- The Financing Commission's Response-Findings and Recommendations -- Infrastructure Stimulus Will Not Solve the Problem -- Ensuring the Security and Sustainability of the Highway Trust Fund -- Positioning Federal Funding for the Longer Term -- Addressing the More immediate Federal Funding Crisis -- Facilitating Non-federal investment in the Short and medium term -- Commentary on potential federal financing institution -- The Path Forward-Conclusions and Next Steps -- End Notes -- Chapter 1 SETTING COURSE: COMMISSION'S CHARGE AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES -- I. The Commission's Charge -- II. The Context for Funding Reform -- Considering the Federal Role in Transportation Investment -- Placing the Federal Role in Context -- Placing Investment Needs in Context -- The Problem Is Broader than Urban Congestion -- Revenue Mechanisms Can Improve System Performance and Reduce Investment Demand by Improving Efficient Use -- Technological Innovation Will Be a Key Ingredient to Success -- III. Principles for Surface Transportation Funding and Finance Recommendations the Financing Commission's Recommendations -- Support Overall Goal of Enhancing Mobility -- Generate Sufficient funding on a Sustainable Basis.

Abstract
I develop an equilibrium matching model where heterogeneous workers and firms learn about match quality and bargain over wages. The model generalizes Jovanovic (1979) to the case of heterogeneous workers and firms. Equilibrium wage dispersion arises due to productivity differences between workers, technological differences between firms, and heterogeneity in beliefs about match quality. Under a simple CRS technology, the equilibrium wage is additively separable in worker- and firm-specific components as well as in the posterior mean of beliefs about match quality. This parallels the "person and firm effects" empirical specification of Abowd et al (1999) and others. The model predicts a negative correlation between estimated person and firm effects, which is consistent with most previous empirical evidence. I estimate the equilibrium wage function and test the model's empirical predictions using linked employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau. I find empirical support for many of the model's predictions and estimate that dispersion in beliefs about match quality explains over 20 percent of observed earnings variation.

Lebenslust und Fremdenfurcht: Ethnologie im Dritten Reich. Thomas Hauschild. ed. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp, 1995. 224 pp.