Europe is getting older – a simple observation with far-reaching implications. The challenges posed by an aging society are tremendous. As the baby boom generation grows older, it is doubtful that ever-longer retirement will continue to be beneficial and affordable for individuals or the...

Human resource management is developing today like digital technologies, almost in real time. A multidisciplinary field by excellence, human resource management has moved from Taylor’s principles of scientific management where people were considered labelling employees, to personal, human...

This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...

Обобщены основные элементы и проблемы системы стратегического управления персоналом банковских учреждений. Предложены направления совершенствования системы...

This paper presents the most representative approaches to concepts of human resources, human resource management and strategic human resource management in the last two decades, based on purely theoretical analysis of the concepts mentioned above. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate...

By defining some behaviors as crimes, law defines incentives and protects society from direct and indirect, tangible and intangible negative impacts. Whatever the severity of the prescribed penalties for those that prevaricate, society and its institutions need to act at the level of law...

This paper draws and expands from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the European Commission aimed at assessing the long term effects produced by a sample of ten major infrastructures in the Transport and Environment sectors and interpreting the key determinants of the observed...

On the basis of market demand survey of chestnut, this article carries out cost-benefit analysis of the chestnut production in Xingtai County, to understand the profitability and payback period of local chestnut production. It points out that chestnut production has a high rate of return on...

Reductions in transport costs resulting from infrastructure improvements generate benefits that can be measured as surplus changes either at an economy-wide scale (social welfare changes) or, as is common practice in cost-benefit analysis (CBA), at a transport market level as transport users’...

Cost-benefit analysis on an animal health program involves considerable data collection and analysis. The analysis step involves expressing data in the form of cash flows, and then performing discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. The output of DCF analysis consists of one of more of the various...