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 ...

We explore the significance of employee compensation and alternative (reservation) income on investment timing, endogenous default, yield spreads and capital structure. In a real-options setting, a manager’s incentive to under(over)invest in a project is associated to labor income he has to forego in order to work on the project, the manager’s salary, his stake on the project’s equity capital a...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine: 1) demographics and professional credentials of recently hired athletic trainers, 2) the association between these characteristics and the high school, clinical, and collegiate setting, and 3) which of these factors best predicted salary. Design and Setting: A survey was sent to all prospective employers. Of the 472 surveys sent, 282 (60%) ...

PURPOSE Few systematic studies have focused on determinants of cumulative research funding (CRF), a measure of research productivity among career researchers world-wide. Using researchers funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), this exploratory study quantifies the association between CIHR-investigator roles and CRF obtained from the CIHR. METHODS CIHR grants and awards ...