Piece rate
Shame and Guilt in Lancashire: Enforcing Piece Rate Contracts
... The establishment of piece rate lists in Lancashire would appear to be consistent with this trend. During the early factory period in Lancashire episodes of rate cutting by employers were common. 2 ...
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Fixed Wages, Piece Rates, and Intertemporal Productivity: A Study of Tree Planters in British Columbia
... a piece rate. If the planter has only used a piece rate, then adding CWP to WORK will give the total number of days ...a piece rate for that particular stretch of ...
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On the Elasticity of Effort for Piece Rates: Evidence from the British Columbia Tree-Planting Industry
... between piece rates and productivity to identify the incentive e ect, we consistently estimate the elasticity of e ort with respect to changes in the piece rate to be ...because piece rates ...
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Piece-Rates, Principal-Agent, and Productivity Profiles: Parametric and Semi-Parametric Evidence
... This paper has estimated productivity pro les from piece{rate data, controlling for the incentive e ects that the compensation system has on worker productivity. Data was collected and analyzed from the ...
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Piece Rates, Fixed Wages, and Incentive Effects: Statistical Evidence from Payroll Records
... that piece rates are set such that they are inversely related to planting ...librium piece rate will be negatively correlated with planting conditions and derive the implications for the observed ...
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When Piece Rates Work: More Lessons from the Cotton Mills
... from rate cutting because of ...piece rate. Even where individual firms and workers wish to protect piece rates, the forces of competition overwhelm ...the rate after measuring it ...
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Rate effect on ice impact forces
... Figure 16 Relation between maximum impact force and impact duration, CCGS Terry Fox 3.2 Pond Inlet For the 1984 field tests at Pond Inlet, results from the 4 tests with a 3 m 2 spherical indentor and a 1 m 2 spherical ...
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Very High Strain Rate Range
... propagate simultaneously in opposite directions in the specimen and the projectile, as shown in Fig. 9.3 . On the one hand, the specimen yields under the impact loading and then the pulse is both re flected within the ...
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Understanding how experts rate cigars
... First, the experts’ ratings on quality and recommendation depend on both objective and subjective characteristics of the cigars like length, diameter, or number an[r] ...
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Thermodynamics of rate-independent plasticity
... The paper is organized as follows. The main ideas are introduced heuristically in Section 2 where we study a ‘‘toy’’ model with a periodic energy landscape. The main purpose of this section is to capture the time ...
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Characterizing ICMP Rate Limitation on Routers
... maximum rate [14], above which routers simply ignore any expired packets and stay ...ICMP rate limitation is implemented on routers and analyze its impact on active ...
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Chasing the magic wear rate
... wear rate for premium ( ≈390BHN) and standard ( ≈260BHN) ...the rate of crack growth increase with curvature, while resistance to both increases with hardness, it is common practice to place hard grades of ...
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Video-rate computational heterodyne holography
... (Dated: January 21, 2014) We present a versatile computational image rendering software of optically-acquired holograms. The reported software can process 4 Megapixel 8-bit raw frames from a sensor array acquired at a ...
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Stabilizing Minimum Error Rate Training
... The most commonly used method for training feature weights in statistical ma- chine translation (SMT) systems is Och’s minimum error rate training (MERT) pro- cedure.. A well-known probl[r] ...
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Intermediate strain rate behavior of cancellous bone: From the lower to the higher strain rate
... strain rate results show the same trend as that observed by (Shim 2005) in human cervical cancellous ...strain rate results for cancellous bone presented in this study, no comparison with the literature ...
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Heart rate variability in sleeping neonates
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Etude bibliographique des tumeurs de la rate chez le chien
... la rate sont aujourd'hui bien ...la rate, le diagnostic de la splénomégalie ainsi que ses différentes causes seront ...la rate et les infiltrations ...
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"Piece" of mind: end of life in the intensive care unit statement of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
... “Piece” of mind: End of life in the intensive care unit Statement of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine ☆ End-of-life decisions are common in the intensive care unit (ICU) with most deaths occurring ...
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Usefulness of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in patients with right bundle branch block: is viability an important piece of the puzzle?
... as the difference between the aortic and pulmonary ejection delays. All patients underwent DSE according to a low-dose infusion protocol. Patients received 5, 10, 15, and 20 µg/kg/ min of dobutamine in 3-minute stage, ...
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A collapse of the fixed rate regime with a discrete alignment of the exchange rate
... If the monetary authorities stop the exchange market intervention before their reserves reach R*, the regime collapses at that time. I refer to this collapse as a collapse[r] ...
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