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Sabbaticals, Kevin F. Hallock Dec 2014

Sabbaticals, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

With the year end upon you and many workplaces closing, reducing hours or accommodating employee vacations because of the holidays, this column focuses on rewards in the form of time away from work that is not so common -- sabbaticals. Sabbaticals are a generous benefit to those workers who have them. And they can clearly be an important part of a total rewards package. According to inc.com, while 5% of firms in the US offer sabbaticals, 25% of the companies listed in "Best Companies to Work For" offer them. Corporate sabbaticals, however, aren't typically as generous in length as those …


El Caso De Madygraf (Ex-Donnelley): Una Exploración De La Tensión Entre La Legalidad Y La Legitimidad De Las Empresas Recuperadas En Argentina / The Case Of Madygraf (Ex-Donnelley): An Exploration Of The Tension Between The Legality And The Legitimacy Of Recovered Businesses In Argentina, Maggie Joyce Dec 2014

El Caso De Madygraf (Ex-Donnelley): Una Exploración De La Tensión Entre La Legalidad Y La Legitimidad De Las Empresas Recuperadas En Argentina / The Case Of Madygraf (Ex-Donnelley): An Exploration Of The Tension Between The Legality And The Legitimacy Of Recovered Businesses In Argentina, Maggie Joyce

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In December 2001, Argentina declared the largest economic debt default in history. Following the default, Argentina’s economy spiraled into depression and a severe economic crisis plagued the country. Unemployment skyrocketed, dollar shortages continued, and many businesses closed under financial pressures. As private business and large corporations alike shut their doors indefinitely, oftentimes under the auspices of fraudulent bankruptcies, freshly unemployed workers across the country reclaimed their right to work by occupying their workplaces and eventually putting them back into production. These businesses now under worker control are part of the empresas recuperadas, or recovered businesses, phenomenon. The fight for existence …


2014-12-01 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Dec 2014

2014-12-01 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for December 1, 2014.


2014-12-01 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Dec 2014

2014-12-01 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for December 1, 2014.


Fast-Food Workers Fight For A Raise And Create A Movement, Angela B. Cornell Nov 2014

Fast-Food Workers Fight For A Raise And Create A Movement, Angela B. Cornell

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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2014-11-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Nov 2014

2014-11-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for November 3, 2014.


2014-11-03 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Nov 2014

2014-11-03 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting newsletter for November 3, 2014.


Five Year Strategic Plan For Economic Development: Prepared For The Town Of Winthrop, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston Nov 2014

Five Year Strategic Plan For Economic Development: Prepared For The Town Of Winthrop, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

In the spring of 2014, the Town of Winthrop hired the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston to help develop a Strategic Plan for Economic Development. The Center’s project team began its work by carefully analyzing data in order to understand Winthrop’s current business environment, and to learn how it has changed over time. Multiple sources of information were used, including the Census Bureau’s Decennial Census, American Community Survey, and County Business Patterns, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Claritas retail leakage data. In addition, the project team distributed and …


Retention Pay, Kevin F. Hallock Nov 2014

Retention Pay, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

In many seasonal jobs, such as store clerks during the holiday shopping season, retention is about employers wanting as little employee turnover as possible during the small window they have each year to earn a big part of their profits. One way seasonal businesses might persuade workers to stay is with some sort of cash bonus paid for staying until the season's end or by paying a substantially higher wage at the very end. While the summer beach of Cape Cod may feel worlds away from the corporate office, the need to consider retention strategies for key employees is universal. …


2014-11-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Nov 2014

2014-11-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress concerns for November of 2014.


2014-10-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Oct 2014

2014-10-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for October 6, 2014.


2014-10-06 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Oct 2014

2014-10-06 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for October 6, 2014.


Do Hitters Boost Their Performance During Their Contract Years?, Heather M. O'Neill Oct 2014

Do Hitters Boost Their Performance During Their Contract Years?, Heather M. O'Neill

Business and Economics Faculty Publications

Each season, baseball fans and journalists alike identify which players are in the final years of their contracts because a lot rides on how the players produce in their “contract year.” Will a player boost his effort and performance in an effort to improve his value and bargaining power? Or will he crumble under the pressure? Or are players’ performances uncorrelated with where they stand in their contract cycles?


Paid Workers And Volunteers, Side By Side, Kevin F. Hallock Oct 2014

Paid Workers And Volunteers, Side By Side, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

Millions of Americans volunteer annually and, on average, volunteers are highly skilled individuals. With unpaid volunteers working alongside W2-paid employees, sometimes it is difficult in a workplace to distinguish one from the other. Motivations for volunteering are many and the author does not intend to fully explore the myriad reasons identified by social scientists for this behavior, including to gain experience, create a path to a paid job, offer service to others or gain personal recognition. An interesting study of volunteerism is Richard Freeman's Working for Nothing: The Supply of Volunteer Labor. Using data from a unique survey, Freeman showed …


2014-10-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Oct 2014

2014-10-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress concerns for October of 2014.


2014-09-08 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Sep 2014

2014-09-08 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for September 8, 2014.


2014-09-08 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Sep 2014

2014-09-08 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for September 8, 2014.


Right Person At The Right Place: How Ipr At The Host Location Influences The Internal Division Of Innovative Labor In Multinational Enterprises, Anand Nandkumar, Kannan Srikanth Sep 2014

Right Person At The Right Place: How Ipr At The Host Location Influences The Internal Division Of Innovative Labor In Multinational Enterprises, Anand Nandkumar, Kannan Srikanth

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School of Business

The internationalization of R&D activity by multinational enterprises (MNEs) is increasing, with a recent big push towards emerging economies. Understanding how MNEs organize collaborative R&D across geographies is therefore an important area of scholarship. However, little attention has been paid towards understanding the factors that influence the division of innovative labor within an MNE across geographies – the internal division of innovative labor. Drawing on the literature that shows that strong protection for intellectual property (IP) is important for the efficient division of innovative labor between firms, we argue and show that differences in effectiveness of IP protection between international …


Pay, Corporate Location And Donations To Charity, Kevin F. Hallock Sep 2014

Pay, Corporate Location And Donations To Charity, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

State and local governments direct a great deal of effort (and resources) toward incenting companies to locate in their particular jurisdictions. The cited reasons for this effort are often the increase in jobs and boost to the local tax base. In "The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities", David Card, Enrico Moretti and the author investigated a number of issues related to the geographical location of corporate headquarters and charitable giving. It turns out that location does matter and the movement of highly paid employees does, too. There are at least two main channels through …


2014-09-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Sep 2014

2014-09-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress concerns for September of 2014.


2014-08-06 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Aug 2014

2014-08-06 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress concerns for August 8, 2014.


2014-08-04 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Aug 2014

2014-08-04 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter of August 4, 2014.


2014-08-04 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Aug 2014

2014-08-04 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 4, 2014.


Paying To Put Out Fires, Kevin F. Hallock Aug 2014

Paying To Put Out Fires, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

There is surprisingly little academic work on the compensation of firefighters. This may be, in part, because their wages are often set by collective bargaining agreements and that those paid as firefighters are regularly paid by seniority. But many aspects of the labor market can still be studied through this interesting occupation, including labor unions, compensation for job risk and even volunteerism. Consider the mountains of papers on Fortune 500 CEOs relative to the number (500) of employees doing this job in the US. In contrast, consider the tiny number of papers on firefighters relative to the large numbers who …


Heuristic Rules In The Field: Evidence From Royalty Shares In Scientific Teams, Reddi Kotha, Dan Lovallo Aug 2014

Heuristic Rules In The Field: Evidence From Royalty Shares In Scientific Teams, Reddi Kotha, Dan Lovallo

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School of Business

Using field data from a large U.S. technology transfer organization with over $50 million in annual revenue, we investigate four related issues regarding the sharing of licensing revenues by academic teams. First, we find that the main empirical regularity is a heuristic-based allocation of shares 1/n, equal shares to all unique inventors in a single invention team, and the use of the partition dependence (PD) rule, whereby inventors receive equal share within an invention and shares across inventions included in the same contract are equal. Second, when we examine the performance consequences of such equal sharing, we find it is …


2014-08-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Aug 2014

2014-08-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress concerns for August of 2014.


2014-07-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Jul 2014

2014-07-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for July 7, 2014.


2014-07-07 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Jul 2014

2014-07-07 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for July 7, 2014.


Systematic Ict Surveillance By Employers: Are Your Personal Activities Private?, Arlene J. Nicholas Jul 2014

Systematic Ict Surveillance By Employers: Are Your Personal Activities Private?, Arlene J. Nicholas

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

This paper reviews the various methods of information and communications technology (ICT) that is used by employers to peer into the work lives and, in some cases, private lives of employees. Some of the most common methods – such as computer and Internet monitoring, video surveillance, and global positioning systems (GPS) – have resulted in employee disciplines that have been challenged in courts. This paper provides background information on United States (U.S.) laws and court cases which, in this age of easily accessible information, mostly support the employer. Assessments regarding regulations and policies, which will need to be continually updated …


2014-06-02 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Jun 2014

2014-06-02 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for June 2, 2014.