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Returns to Managerial and Technical Competencies of IT Professionals: An Empirical Analysis

Mithas, Sunil - 2004

professionals in the non-profit and governmental sector receive less compensation compared to their counterparts in the for … inequalities on the basis of gender and male IT professionals receive 7.8% more in total compensation than their female …

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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...

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Context-Dependent Prognostics and Health Assessment: A Condition-Based Maintenance Approach That Supports Mission Compliance

Allgood, G.O.; Kercel, S.W. - 2008

In today's manufacturing environment, plants, systems, and equipment are being asked to perform at levels not thought possible a decade ago. The intent is to improve process operations and equipment reliability, availability, and maintainability without costly upgrades. Of course these gains...

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Field balancing in the real world

Bracher, B. - 2009

`s great - if you can do it. There are valid reasons for this approach, and it would be much easier to balance machinery when … other problems have been corrected. It is the theoretical ideal in field balancing. However, in the real world of machinery …

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Analysis of the effects of integrating wind turbines into a conventional utility: a case study. Final report

Goldenblatt, M.K.; Wegley, H.L.; Miller, A.H. - 2011

The impact on a utility incorporating wind turbine generation due to wind speed sampling frequency, wind turbine performance model, and wind speed forecasting accuracy is examined. The utility analyzed in the study was the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the wind turbine assumed...

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Puget Sound Area Electric Reliability Plan. Appendix C : Economic and Technical Evaluation.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009

In this Appendix, the study framework and evaluation for economic and technical factors are explained. This material documents the analysis performed for Section 4.8 of the EIS. Coupled with the environmental analysis, the evaluation factors described below will be used to judge the relative...

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Reputation, tenure and compensation of independent audit committee members and financial restatements

Sharma, Vineeta D; Iselin, Errol R - 2006

We investigate the association between the reputation, tenure and cash compensation of independent audit committee … (ii) the cash compensation paid to independent audit committee members. Our results suggest that independent audit … financial statements are of high quality. Our findings on compensation suggest that monetary incentives motivate independent …

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Activist Investor Impact on CEO Compensation of Investment Targets

Zacharias, Eric - 2010

This paper examines the “activist effect” on the levels and structures of CEO compensation when a company is targeted … why compensation changes are a logical focus for extension of the previous research. The study is based on a sample of … in total CEO compensation achieved through a change in compensation structure. …

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Incentives in Professional Tennis: Tournament Theory and Intangible Factors

Silverman, Joshua; Seidel, Steven - 2011

This paper analyzes the incentives of professional tennis players in a tournament setting, as a proxy for workers in a firm. Previous studies have asserted that workers exert more effort when monetary incentives are increased, and that effort is maximized when marginal pay dispersion varies...

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Transition on the Shop Floor - The Restructuring of a Weaving Mill, Hungary 1988-97

Köll?, János - 2004

While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows a weaving mill from 1998 to 1997 on its way of...

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