In the past twenty-five years, egalitarian political philosophers have acknowledged the importance of injecting personal responsibility into egalitarian theory. In brief, the ethically attractive objective is to equalize opportunities for desirable conditions, such as health and earning capacity, rather than equalizing health status or earning capacities, across the members of a society. I prop...

In this paper we will analyze how retirement behavior is affected by a worker’s firm-specific or general training history. This relationship is studied in the perspective of upward sloping earning profiles. Moreover, we examine the effects of technological change on the likelihood of early retirement. Using U.S. data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men, we find that workers with ...

With increasing demands for high-quality semantic segmentation in the industry, hard-distinguishing boundaries have posed a significant threat to existing solutions. Inspired by real-life experience, i.e., combining varied observations contributes higher visual recognition confidence, we present equipotential learning (EPL) method. This novel module transfers predicted/ground-truth labels self-...

An important TM practice to improve retention of newcomers is the socialization process used assimilate them. We conducted two studies; an exploratory qualitative study followed by a survey-based study. Our results indicate substantial percentage U.S. workers experience hazing as newcomers. Compared who traditional onboarding, hazed report higher turnover intentions and strain lower levels enga...