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Optimal Minimum Wage in the Classic Labor Supply and Demand Paradigm… wage laws need not induce unemployment even under the classic labor supply-and-demand paradigm. As a result, … & Raphael C. Thomadsen … Optimal Minimum Wage in the Classic Labor Supply and Demand Paradigm …
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Highlights from the Class of 2025 ConvocationAfter a monumental year, NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service celebrated its Class of 2025 at the storied theater of New York City Center on Friday, May 16. With loved ones, faculty, staff, and administrators in attendance, the …
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Preparing Your ClassEach course at Wagner requires a course syllabus. All course syllabi will be posted on the web, and must be distributed on the first day of class. You must also submit your syllabus online by the end of the first week of class The syllabus is the major …
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Class VisitsSit in on a Course Sitting in on an NYU Wagner course virtually gives prospective and newly admitted students an opportunity to see first-hand an NYU classroom, interact with current students, and share in the knowledge of NYU Wagner's dynamic faculty. …
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Race, Class and Social Control in the Streets… resurgence of media interest in her 1961 urban studies classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. This …
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Class VisitsSit in on a Course Sit in on a course to experience the classroom, meet current students, and learn from NYU Wagner's dynamic faculty. Most classes are conveniently offered in the evening. Class visits are subject to availability and offered on a …
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Joy KimJoy Kim, Esq. has been an Associate Counsel at the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP) for the past two years where she advises the agency on land use issues. Prior to her role at DCP, she defended tenants in Manhattan housing court as a Staff …
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CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM EVALUATIONThe New York City Department of Correction (NYCDOC) oversees persons in custody (PICs) awaiting trial or serving sentences of one year or less. NYCDOC engaged the Capstone team to recommend optimal systems for the assessment and classification of PICs. …
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Alexander ShermansongAlexander Shermansong is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service of NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is also the CEO of Civic Consulting USA where he enables mayors to collaborate pro bono with companies and get …
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Audience Building and Financial Health in the Nonprofit Performing Arts: Current Literature and Unanswered QuestionsIn Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges . Edited by Michael Beckerman and Paul Boghossian. … Thad Calabrese and Francie Ostrower … Audience Building and Financial Health in the Nonprofit Performing Arts: Current Literature and …
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UPADM-GP.219
Segregation and Public Policy in the American City… and front-line community groups. This course will draw on classic academic materials on American urban history, …Publication
Logic with Polarized Parties, Changing Media, and Motivated Reasoners… reasoning require significant modification of Arnold’s classic assumptions. Still, they argue, a realistic …
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Micro-Credit… of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics retains many classic essays of enduring importance and contains 1,872 …
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Honky… in Honky, Dalton Conley's childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that …
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URPL-GP.2660
History and Theory of Planning… in part as a great books course. We will read a series of classic books in the history and theory of planning by major …Course
URPL-GP.2620
Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in American CitiesThis course examines historic and contemporary patterns of racial and ethnic stratification often found at the center of disputes concerning urban development, the allocation of city resources and unequal distributions of power. Also embedded throughout …Capstone Projects
Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in GhanaThe United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) supports sustainable development through financial and technical assistance to local governments in the world’s poorest countries. UNCDF is launching a new International Municipal Investment Fund (IMIF) …
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Faiyaz JafferFaiyaz Jaffer, Ed.D Dr. Faiyaz Jaffer is the Research Scholar for the Islamic Center at New York University and an Associate Chaplain for the Center of Global & Spiritual Life at NYU. He holds a doctorate in education from New York University, with a …
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Can a Little 'Nudge' Help Solve the Plastic Bag Crisis?Though it may seem that they’ve always been part of American consumerism and convenience, plastic shopping bags first showed up in grocery stores in the 1970s—several years after a family friend of Dustin Hoffman’s titular character in The Graduate …
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Highlights from the Class of 2023 ConvocationThe vibrant halls of the historic New York City Center resonated with applause and celebration as NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service held its Convocation ceremony on Friday, May 19. The ceremony marked a significant milestone for the …
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Beyond Individual Creativity: The Superadditive Benefits of Multicultural Experience for Collective Creativity in Culturally Diverse Teams… task in terms of fluency, flexibility, and novelty—three classic dimensions of creativity—when both dyad partners had …
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Wealth and Poverty in America: A ReaderWhat does it mean to be poor in America at the dawn of the 21 st century? For that matter, what does it mean to be rich? And how are the two related to each other? These apparently simple questions present enormous theoretical and empirical challenges to …
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Nonprofit and For Profit Partnerships: Rationale and Challenges of Cross-Sector Contracting… At the same time, there is ample evidence in our cases of classic transactions costs in implementing cross-sectoral …