Faculty salaries are a prominent feature of the reward systems under which academic work is done. Not surprisingly, therefore, they are also becoming a rather prominent element in the recent attention paid to college and university productivity. Among those examining salaries in recent years have been legislators curious over how $100,000 a year professors spend their time, journalists worried ...

This thesis examines salary structure types (hierarchical or compressed) as predictors of team performance in the National Hockey League (NHL). Additionally, an analysis of goalie statistics is completed in order to determine what, if any, performance measures relate to salary. Data in this research were collected from the 2005-06 season up to the 2010-11 season. Salary inequality/equality (Gin...

The article aims to analyze and evaluate current trends in the global efforts suppress a unique field financing of terrorism – terrorist salaries. study seeks cast new light on origins implications economy that deals with salaries, rewards, other benefits paid terrorists. purpose policy salaries is halt by disrupting channels funding diminishing economic viability activity. include diverse cons...

Second, Russia benefits from high commodity prices and the increasing dependence on oil and gas by Western countries. In the year 2006, Russia expected a balance of trade surplus of several billion Rubles. This has also positive effects on average salaries. As most of salaries and wages are paid without taxes (on the black market), people get gross for net salary. Instead of generating deficits...

Members of the Turkish Parliament (MPs) earn a base salary. In addition, they earn a bonus, if they are retired from the labor force. A law enacted in January 2012 pegged this bonus to 18% of the salary of the President of Turkey. As a result, salaries of the retirement eligible MPs increased substantially. Using a data set of MPs who served in the Parliament between 2007 and 2015, and exploiti...

Development of estimation has been ascribed to two sources: (1) a change from logarithmic to linear representations of number and (2) development of general estimation skills. To test the representational change hypothesis, we gave children and adults an estimation task in which an automatic, linear representation is less adaptive than the logarithmic representation: estimating the value of sal...