A cake has to be divided fairly among n agents. When all agents have equal entitlements, it is known that such a division can be implemented with n − 1 cuts. When agents may have different entitlements, we show that at least 2n − 2 cuts may be necessary, and 2n · Θ(log(n)) cuts are always sufficient.

In this article, it is argued that grandparents' obligations originate from parental obligations (i.e from the relationship they have with their children, the parents of their grandchildren) and not from the role of grandparent per se, and any entitlements flow from the extent to which these obligations are met. The position defended is, therefore, that grandparents qua grandparents are not ent...

Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) were launched with the objective of increasing institutional deliveries. But, its knowledge among the post-natal mothers is not known. This research evaluated the knowledge of two national health programs among post-natal mothers and found out the predictors of good knowledge about the entitlements...

While it is well established in literature that firms innovate and transform themselves the face of discontinuous change, our knowledge what drives business transformation remains limited. How why are able to implications for body knowledge? To understand transformation, we need look into firms’ abilities reconfigure resources order innovate. The usually not available within organization. Busin...

PENSIONS AT A GLANCE 2009: RETIREMENT-INCOME SYSTEMS IN OECD COUNTRIES – ISBN 978-92-64-06071-5 – © OECD 2009 17 Methodology Future entitlements under today’s parameter and rules The pension entitlements that are presented are those that are currently legislated in OECD countries. Changes in rules that have already been legislated, but are being phased-in gradually, are assumed to be fully in p...

Abstract The modern study of economic inequality is based on the distribution entitlements over goods and services. But social commentators at least since Rousseau have been concerned with a different aspect inequality: that it implies one person entitled to command another for their own personal ends. I call this as labor. propose measure labor by calculating extent which top income groups can...

In his famous partial dissent in the LeRoy Fibre 2 case, Justice Holmes conceptualized the shift from an absolutist understanding of property fights to a "bundle of rights" approach that permits removal of particular entitlements without harming the remaining interests of the owner. Recognizing that law focuses on differences ofdagree, Holmes posited that an individual's property entitlements c...