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Debates over “entitlements” have lacked conceptual clarity because the term has at least six analytically distinct … meanings. The psychological “entitlements” that many attack are distinct from the legalistic “entitlements” that others … champion. Most importantly, however, entitlements are economic concepts. A benefit provided to all claimants meeting state …
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do not always secure their employment entitlements. The inspection and prosecution strategies adopted by or forced upon … employer evasion of employee entitlements has been significant, and sustained. Second, the shift from routine inspections to a …
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Employer non-compliance with workers? entitlements has been largely ignored in Australian industrial relations. The … minimum labour standards between 1986 and 1995: who is exploited and in respect of what entitlements. Industry contexts and … recovered by the federal inspectorate during the period. Employer evasion of workers? entitlements is arguably a calculated …
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IS vendor organizations are increasingly using program management practices to manage complex projects (Gierra 2004). The move to program teams is due to the realization that the management of many client projects and their underlying dependencies requires teamwork among project managers from...
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In this paper we try to construct a two-attribute group disutility function for two conflicting decision makers, taking into account the property of utility independence and/or convex dependence between them. Two variables in the group utility function are disutility levels of two conflicting...
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This dissertation examines the utility of adaptive agent modeling (also referred to as agent-based modeling or individual based modeling) as a tool in public policy research. It uses the adaptive agent technique to produce useful results in three diverse areas. It demonstrates that the adaptive...
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In common-value auctions and contests economic agents often havevarying levels of information regarding the value of … contests increases relative to the case of independentprizes.Chapter III experimentally considers the role of asymmetric … asymmetric information in one-shot common-valueall-pay auctions and lottery contests from both experimental and …
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the highest level of total group effort. A theory of contests developed by Moldovanu et al. (2007) predicts that the …
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This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of tradable instruments that represent greenhouse gas emissions allowances. In one half of the sessions these investments are unobservable, while in the other half traders can...
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The alleged privacy paradox states that individuals report high values for personal privacy, while at the same time they report behavior that contradicts a high privacy value. This is a misconception. Reported privacy behaviors are explained by asymmetric subjective beliefs. Beliefs may or may...
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