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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
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The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2010
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2011
A BILL further to amend the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. URL: [http://prsindia.org/uploads/media/Institute%20of%20Technology%20Bill%202010.pdf].
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Explaining Organizational Diseconomies of Scale in R&D: Agency Problems and the Allocation of Engineering Talent, Ideas, and Effort by Firm Size
Zenger, Todd R. - In: Management Science 40 (1994) 6, pp. 708-729
The comparative efficiency and success of small firms in R&D remains largely unexplained. This paper empirically examines scale diseconomies in offering employment contracts as an explanation for diseconomies of scale in R&D. The paper argues that small firms more efficiently resolve the severe...
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Themes in defence manpower economics and challenges for the future
Warner, John; Asch, Beth - In: Defence and Peace Economics 11 (2000) 1, pp. 93-103
Raising and maintaining military forces have posed enormous challenges for the United States and its allies. Economists have made significant contributions to understanding of how to recruit and manage such forces. This paper highlights key past contributions and discusses challenges for future...
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Regulatory Takings
Miceli, Thomas; Segerson, Kathleen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2011
owner is entitled to compensation under the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. This chapter reviews legal and economic theories … aimed at determining when a regulation crosses the compensation threshold. It also assesses the consequences of various … compensation rules on the efficiency of land use decisions and government policymaking. …
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The Impact of Increased Employee Retention on Performance in a Customer Contact Center
Whitt, Ward - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 8 (2006) 3, pp. 235-252
Amathematical model is developed to help analyze the benefit in contact-center performance obtained from increasing employee (agent) retention, which is in turn obtained by increasing agent job satisfaction. The contact-center performance may be restricted to a traditional productivity measure...
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Optimizing Delivery Fees for a Network of Distributors
Balakrishnan, Anantaram; Natarajan, Harihara Prasad; … - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2 (2000) 3, pp. 297-316
decision requirements to negotiate compensation for distribution services. Based on a collaborative project with a leading … are compensated using fee values that depend on delivery weights and distances. It ensures that the expected compensation … develop a new fee table that generated considerable economic savings and provided more equitable compensation to distributors. …
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Acceptance, acceptability and environmental justice: the role of community benefits in wind energy development
Cowell, Richard; Bristow, Gill; Munday, Max - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 54 (2011) 4, pp. 539-557
are seen predominantly as compensation for impacts, without any clear implication that they should change social attitudes …
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SFAS No. 123R: the controversy and its economic consequences
Schroeder, Richard; Schauer, David A. - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 23 (2008) March, pp. 295-306
Purpose – To review the evolution of SFAS No. 123R, “Accounting for Share Based Compensation,” and examine the economic …
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Winner Take All in the NFL: The Effect of the Salary Cap and Free Agency on the Compensation of Skill Position Players
Leeds, Michael A.; Kowalewski, Sandra - In: Journal of Sports Economics 2 (2001) 3, pp. 244-256
the salary cap affected compensation. They show that the new bargaining regime greatly increased the reward to performance. …
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