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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"Labor costs"”.
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Do Managers Manipulate Employee Labor Costs to Meet Firm- and Executive-Level Targets?
… whether managers manipulate non-executive labor costs to meet performance benchmarks. First, I predict and find that managers manipulate labor costs to meet analysts' earnings forecasts. Having established that managers manipulate labor costs to meet firm-level performance benchmarks, I …
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U.S. airline industry operating cost measures from 2000-2016
… the evolution of U.S. airlines' unit operating costs from 2000-2016 as well as the factors that drove major changes in cost metrics. We assess the trends in operating cost by carrier type as well as for individual airlines and find evidence of a recent operating cost divergence between the …
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On the Viability of Quantitative Assessment Methods in Software Engineering and Software Services
<p>IT help desk operations are expensive. Costs associated with IT operations present challenges to profit goals. Help desk managers need a way to plan staffing levels so that labor costs are minimized while problems are resolved efficiently. An incident prediction method is needed for planning …
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Level loading and cross docking in a global logistics network
… areas of the world. These reasons include: lower labor costs, emerging markets, tax and tariff considerations, and intellectual property issues. With the constant pressure to decrease costs, outsourcing is becoming more popular, especially to areas having very low labor costs, such as Asia. As a …
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Internationalisierungsstrategien in der deutschen Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie : eine empirische Untersuchung
… enterprises carry out a tailoring, since this labor intensive component plays a crucial role due to the important factor labor costs. Within the own empirical study, following topics are investigated: international activities, motives for internationalization, location factors, competitive …
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Essays on Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
… that examine the effects of firm policies on labor costs, corporate culture, and stock markets. The first essay studies the impact of major customers on supplier firms’ performance, and I find that supplier firms are willing to collaborate with their major customers while keeping low financial …
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Pull Manufacturing System Design for Rough Mill Systems: A Case Study
… steadily gaining market-share due to decreased labor costs. While domestic operations can not compete with labor costs available to foreign manufacturers, they may be able to remain competitive through product lead time reduction and on-time delivery to the final customer. Pull based …
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Hours vs. Employment: The Determinants of Labor Market Adjustment Since The Great Depression
… three forms of quantity-side adjustment in the labor market--weekly hours, employment, and layoffs. We primarily focus on the role played by unionization and some of the non-wage labor costs that have become a quasi-fixed cost of employment. Although the effects of unionization and fixed …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… studies two distinct issues in the field of labor economics: the labor supply of new mothers and firms' adjustments to changing labor costs. In both cases, I study the effect of labor market policies, both because they provide quasi-exogenous variation in otherwise endogenous variables of …
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Effects of Farm and Household Decisions on Labor Allocation and Profitability of Beginning Vegetable Farms in Virginia: a Linear Programming Model
… to develop a plan to balance on- and off-farm labor could allow farmers to make more profitable decisions. In this study, a General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is used to develop a labor management planning framework for use by Virginia's beginning vegetable farmers or service providers, …
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A survey of the use of wage incentive plans among manufacturing plants within the Commonwealth of Virginia as a test of the theory of wage incentives
… of these workers, and decreased unit labor costs. It was further determined that unionism has no apparent effect on the use of these plans.
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The ethics of labor automation : AI, technological disenfranchisement, and libertarian paternalism
… data, is likely to assert itself in the labor economy. Labor costs often constitute the majority of a firm's operating expenses; indeed, the average wage share in highly developed nations currently hovers around 60% of GDP 2. Labor-automating technology is, for this reason, both …
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Optimal staffing recommendation for inbound operations
… following a 'staffing-to-charge' model in which labor is planned to match the incoming volume capacity required by the weekly Sales Operations Planning (S&OP) forecast. Staffing-to-charge is a lean model of staffing that attempts to maximize labor utilization by minimizing the possibility of a …
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Development of a Markov Model for Forecasting Continuation Rates for Enlisted Prior Service and Non-Prior Service Personnel in the Selective Marine Corps Reserve (SMCR)
… overage or underages that impact training and labor costs, as well as career progression. The results of model validation indicate that models based on annual aggregate monthly transition rates fails the stationarity assumption required of Markov models. These results suggest that the attrition …
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Design and development of a transfer system for an automated packaging machine
… machine will contribute to the reduction of labor costs and increase reliability regarding the exact number and orientation of the vials inside the package. After a concise overview of the motivation and objectives of the project as well as a brief reference to the term industrial automation, …
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The relationship between money and prices revisited
… of output, capacity utilization, and unit labor costs are taken into account, the growth rate of money has a significant positive impact on the growth rate of the wholesale price index.
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An industrially produced hospital patient bedroom unit
In view of the steadily rising costs associated with health care delivery, especially in terms of the associated labor required to produce facilities, the possibility of cutting costs in providing facilities for health care delivery was investigated. Specifically, the possibility for mass producing …
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Manipulator’s configuration design, excavation path generation, and underground object detection for an autonomous electric excavator
… is an industrial sector that requires high labor costs and is exposed to harsh and hazardous environmental conditions. As a solution to these problems, an autonomous excavator is expected in high demand. To increase the energy efficiency in autonomous excavators, and increase the safety of …
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Cost reduction of polar class vessels : structural optimization that includes production factors
… minimization was important, higher fabrication labor costs occurred due to the closely spaced frames and thicker material needed. There was a cost trade-off between minimizing material under the traditional design method and designing a ship that was easier to construct at the shipyard, i.e. …
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Applying human-machine interaction design principles to retrofit existing automated freight planning systems
… and machine actors, to reduce transportation and labor costs and increase the ability of the organization to think and act strategically.
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