Minimum Pay Scale and Career Length in the NBA

construction and validation of the translation teacher competency test and the scale of students’ perceptions of translation teachers

the major purpose of this study was to develop the translation teacher competency test (ttct) and examine its construct and predictive validity. the present study was conducted in two phases: a qualitative phase as well as a quantitative phase. in the first phase of the study, the author attempted to find out the major areas of competency required for an academic translation teacher. the second...

Career Concerns And The Optimal Pay-for-Performance Sensitivity

Prior literature suggests that managers’ career concerns provide implicit incentive mechanisms for their behaviors (Fama (1980), Holmstrom (1999)), and may substitute the explicit incentives in their compensation contracts (Gibbons and Murphy (1992)). We show that the substitution effect can be weakened, and even reversed, when managers perform multiple tasks and are concerned about both the le...

The Minimum Description Length

Studying the Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity of the Protean Career Attitudes Scale

Aim: The aim of this research was to investigate the factor structure, validity and reliability of the Protean Career Attitudes Scale of employees. Methods: This research was a descriptive research which investigated the psychometrics of the scale. The statistical population included the employees of Isfahan's engineer companies. The samples were 200 employees (including 78 females and 122 male...

Gender Differences in Physician Pay: Tradeoffs between Career and Family

This paper analyzes how much of the gender earnings gap among physicians is due to women's greater family responsibilities. Women physicians earn 11 percent less for being married plus 14 percent less for having one child and 22 percent less for having more than one child. Before marrying/having children, women physicians who later became wives or mothers had higher earnings than those who rema...