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...

OBJECTIVE To examine gender differences in initial and long-term salary and practice ownership expectations among first-year veterinary students. DESIGN Survey. SAMPLE First-year veterinary students at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine during 2000 through 2003 and 2005 through 2009. PROCEDURES A 1-page survey was distributed to students during orientation ...

This thesis seeks to understand the relationships between salary, non-monetary factors, and job satisfaction in the labor market. It applies lessons from both economic theory and sociological research as it contextualizes and studies these different aspects of the labor market. In a regression comparing salary and non-monetary factors, only two out of 16 dummy variables are statistically signif...

In this paper, a salary-plus-bonus incentive mechanism is proposed to motivate WiFi Access Points (APs) to provide data offloading service for mobile network operators (MNOs). Under the proposed salary-plus-bonus scheme, WiFi APs are rewarded not only based on offloaded data volume but also based on the quality of their offloading service. The interactions between WiFi APs and the MNO under thi...