BACKGROUND Previous studies have investigated factors that are influential on the choice of training hospitals among residency physicians, but the effect of salary was not conclusive. In this study, we aimed to examine whether a higher salary attracted more residents to non-university hospitals participating in the Japanese Residency Matching Programme. METHODS Data on 475 hospitals/programme...

Research consistently shows that teacher quality is a powerful determinant of student achievement gains, yet, urban school districts often struggle to staff their schools with qualified teachers. This problem seems to begin with teacher recruitment. In order to improve teacher recruitment, a popular intervention for urban school districts is raising teacher salaries to improve the school distri...

Teacher retention is an important goal for urban school districts. In an effort to improve teacher retention, one popular strategy is to raise teacher salaries, often in targeted areas. However, there is little evidence on whether salary increases can improve retention in urban schools and districts Moreover, there is even less evidence on whether such salary incentives can be effective in reta...

In equal employment cases it is important to compare the salary, hiring or promotion status of minority employees or applicants to that of similarly qualified majority members. Standard regression methods include a binary variable indicating minority status along with major job-related variables to assess whether belonging to a minority has a negative effect. Implicitly, this method assumes tha...

PURPOSE Studies have suggested that male physicians earn more than their female counterparts. The authors examined whether this disparity exists in a recently hired cohort. METHOD In 2010-2011, the authors surveyed recent recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) mentored career development (i.e., K08 or K23) awards, receiving responses from 1,275 (75% response rate). For the 1,012 ph...

evaluating of staff’s performance and accessing to optimized performance in an organization will be possible by creating factors such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. in this paper, data envelope analysis (dea) was used in order to evaluate staffs’ performance in khuzestan oxin steel company. also, a questionnaire was used in order to collect necessary data and information (cr...