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Employee work motivation and discretionary work effort
Morris, Robyn Joy - 2009
The focus of this thesis is discretionary work effort, that is, work effort that is voluntary, is above and beyond what is minimally required or normally expected to avoid reprimand or dismissal, and is organisationally functional. Discretionary work effort is an important construct because it...
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Theory of job search. Unemployment-participation tradeoff and spatial search with asymmetric changes of the wage distribution
Aldashev, Alisher - 2007
the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of …
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The nature of unemployment in urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - 2004
ofincidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both.Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekerswho come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to fouryears …
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Competing Risk Proportional Hazard Models of Farm Service Agency Direct Operating Loans
Dixon, Bruce L.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Foianini, Monica; … - 2008
The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct farm loan program is designed to provide credit to family-sized farms unable to obtain credit from conventional sources at reasonable rates and terms despite having sufficient cash flow to repay and an ability to fully securitize the loan. FSA policy...
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The Singularity of the Efficiency Bound of the Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Ridder, Geert; Woutersen, Tiemen - 2001
We reconsider the efficiency bound for the semi-parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard (MPH) model with parametric baseline hazard and regression function. This bound was first derived by Hahn (1994). One of his results is that if the baseline hazard is Weibull, the efficiency bound is singular,...
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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in theBritish engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage ofcontaining a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long periodwith varying labour market conditions,...
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Implied Equity Duration: A New Measure of Equity Risk
Dechow, Patricia M.; Sloan, Richard G.; Soliman, Mark T. - 2004
Duration is an important and well-established risk characteristic for fixed income securities. We use recent … developments in financial statement analysis research to construct a measure of duration for equity securities. We find that the … volatility and stock beta are both positively correlated with equity duration. Moreover, estimates of common shocks to expected …
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