Detailed information on how …rms structure base salary, bonus payments and total compensation is drawn from a data set of more than 500 …rms between 1981-1988. This data is merged with personnel records of the …rms’ top executives to investigate the relationship between executive compensation and …rm pay policies. I …nd that the …rm pay policies have a strong e¤ect on compensation even when con...

Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research and development. Among firms with centralized R&D organizations, a clear relationship emerges: more long-term incentives (such as ...

Exploiting Australia's National Service lotteries of 1965 to 1972, I estimate the effect of army service on employment outcomes. Population data from military personnel records, tax returns, veterans' compensation records, and the Census facilitate a rich and precise analysis, identified by 53,000 complying conscripts. The estimated employment effect is -12 percentage points (95% CI: -13, -11) ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The current treatment for femoral fractures in children is mostly operative, which contrasts with treatment of other long bone fractures in children. We analyzed treatment injuries in such patients in Finland in order to identify avoidable injuries. Our other aims were to calculate the incidence of these fractures and to describe the treatment method used. METHODS The P...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Tibial fractures comprise 10% of all fractures in children. To our knowledge there have been no previous reports of treatment injuries in these fractures. We analyzed compensation claims concerning treatment of these fractures in Finland. We used this information to determine preventable causes of treatment injuries. MATERIAL AND METHODS In Finland, the Patient Insuranc...

In the preceding chapters, we presented evidence about the personnel difficulties facing the Air Force and discussed options for altering the structure of military compensation. The options included restructuring the basic pay table to make it more positively skewed with respect to rank, promoting personnel faster, paying higher bonuses, tying bonus payments to current skill level and current r...

PERSONNEL are becoming a key component in COST PROJECTIONS overall library planning. Strategic plans and the results of a process of defining visions and values provide critical guides to where and how personnel should be allocated. The article also examines factors such as accountability, new programmatic initiatives, and clientcentered approaches in terms of examining personnel costs. A revie...