W service occupations are the most susceptible to global disaggregation? What are the factors and mechanisms that make service occupations amenable to global disaggregation? This research addresses these questions by building on previous work by Apte and Mason (1995) and Rai et al. (2006) that focuses on the unbundling of information and physical flows. We propose a theory of service disaggrega...

In Fall 2009, in an informal report to the Women’s Faculty Caucus using the 2008-2009 faculty salary data, it was reported that “(w)omen make an average of $10,000 less than men across campus.” However, no other factors were considered when computing this difference in average salaries, such as faculty rank (Assistant, Associate, Full), college and department of employment, or years spent at cu...

A well-recognized problem in the multitasking literature is that workers might substantially reduce their effort on tasks that produce unobservable outputs as they seek the salient rewards to observable outputs. Since the theory related to multitasking is decades ahead of the empirical evidence, the economic costs of standard incentive schemes under multitasking contexts remain largely unknown....

BACKGROUND Salary discrepancies between male and female physicians are well documented; however, gender-based salary differences among clinically practicing physician assistants (PAs) have not been studied since 1992 (Willis, 1992). Therefore, the objectives of the current study are to evaluate the presence of salary discrepancies between clinically practicing male and female PAs and to analyze...

Background A short-term protocol for evaluation of National Football League (NFL) athletes incurring concussion has yet to be fully defined and framed in the context of the short-term potential team and career longevity, financial risk, and performance. Purpose To compare the short-term career outcomes for NFL players with concussions by analyzing the effect of concussions on (1) franchise re...

Natural-language (NL) interfaces built so far have primarily addressed the problem of accessing information stored in conventional data base systems. Among the proven capabilities exhibited by these systems are those that: • Provide reasonably good NL access to specific data bases • Access multiple, remote data bases. • Answer direct questions. ( "What is Smith's salary?") • Coordinate multiple...

The national information communications technology (ICT) industry association (popularly known as PIKOM) in collaboration with the largest online job recruitment service provider, namely Jobstreet.com, has been publishing salary profile of ICT professionals in Malaysia annually since 2006. The series has been publishing average salary of ICT professionals by industry, job category, employment s...

What role does self-employment play in the retirement process? Older Americans are staying in the labor force longer than prior trends would have predicted and many change jobs later in life. These job transitions are often within the same occupation or across occupations within wageand-salary employment. The transition can also be out of wage-and-salary work and into self employment. Indeed, n...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To describe a 10-year diversity initiative to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in an academic department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review. METHODS A multifaceted approach was undertaken to recruit and retain women and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty: creation of a climate of diversity, aggres...

Both human capital accumulation and Lazear contracts can explain the raising wage of salary/wage worker through job experience or tenure. To distinguish between these two effects, Lazear and Moore (1984) used self-employed workers’ wage growth to partial out the effect of human capital accumulation from salary/wage workers’ wage growth. When the human capital accumulation behavior is identical ...