compensating differentials Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...compensating differentials Compensating wage differentials are higher wages—than can seemingly be explained by reference to skill level or human capital —that are paid to workers who perform jobs that have particular hazards or other unpleasant features associated with them. The higher wages paid to workers in hazardous jobs, where there is a risk of accident and injury, has been a particular focus of economic research but there are many types of compensating differential. Other types of jobs may attract higher pay because of unsocial hours, insecurity, or...
compensating differentials
compensating wage differential Quick reference
A Dictionary of Economics (5 ed.)
...compensating wage differential A differential in wages intended to compensate workers for special non-pecuniary aspects of a job. Examples would be extra pay for work with hazardous substances or involving unsocial hours. The compensating wage differential for taking on a job which involves the possibility of accidental death is used to infer the value of...
compensating wage differential
Feminist Scholarship Reference library
Yvonne Sherwood
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...the most sparkling, attractive texts, like lost coins (Loades), or finding texts that are more ‘bread’ than ‘stone’-like (Schüssler Fiorenza). The Song of Songs is for many a ‘non-sexist’ text, even an ‘antidote to patriarchy’: Trible sees it as a kind of feminist paradise to compensate for an Eden that has gone sour for womankind. The book of Ruth can offer a similarly idyllic space: reversing the usual pattern, the husbands and fathers sink into the sub-plot (they die in the first few verses) and Boaz sits in the wings as Ruth, Naomi, and a female chorus...
equalizing wage differential
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industrial injury
equalizing wage differential Quick reference
A Dictionary of Economics (5 ed.)
...equalizing wage differential A wage differential necessary to compensate workers for non-pecuniary disadvantages of a job. Such disadvantages could include danger, dirt, discomfort, an inaccessible workplace, low social regard, or unsocial...
London allowance Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...employees who work in London. It is designed to offset the higher cost of living in the area. Some commentators argue that this principle of regional variations in pay should be extended across the UK, resulting in differential wage rates for similar jobs thereby reflecting local variations in the cost of living. See also compensating differential...
differential Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...The trend in the UK and the United States has been for differentials to widen both within and between organizations in recent years, as part of the general movement towards greater inequality in the labour market ( see winner-takes-all market ). Within organizations the earnings of the better paid, and particularly senior managers, have tended to pull away from those of the lower paid, and within occupations there has also been a process of greater dispersion of earnings. See compensating differential , pay dispersion...
Barcroft apparatus Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2 ed.)
...apparatus or Barcroft respirometer a differential respirometer for studying gas exchange of cells, tissue slices, or tissue homogenates, now rarely used. It is a closed system comprising two flasks of equal volume connected by a U‐shaped manometer (the Barcroft manometer). In operation, both flasks contain the same volumes of liquid and gas; one, the reaction flask, contains the cells or tissue; the other, the compensation flask, is free from cells or tissue and serves to compensate for changes in temperature and barometric pressure during the course...
industrial injury Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...identified the kinds of workplace in which injury is likely to occur, with a notable and persistent finding being the reduced risk of injury in unionized workplaces. Economists have also examined how systems of management adapt to hazards at work and have researched compensating differentials ; that is, the prevalence of higher rates of pay in dangerous occupations. See also accidents at work , noise at work , slips and trips , vibration , work at height...
Sex Work Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India (3 ed.)
...of the disease. A major challenge in implementing this strategy comes from the strong preference that Indian men tend to have for sex without a condom. This results in a ‘compensating differential’ for safe sex; sex workers who insist on using condoms stand to lose a lot of money resulting in a major disincentive for practising safe sex. However, estimating this compensating differential with an ordinary least squares regression that regresses sex worker earnings against condom use results in a serious statistical bias, even after controlling for a variety of...
Zebra Finches Reference library
Encyclopedia of Evolution
...Both sexes participate in parental care and defense of young, but the male share of care is slightly less, on average, than that of females. The expression of caregiving is variable, however, and the mates of attractively banded individuals compensate for the reduced parental attentiveness of their partners (differential allocation). A functional explanation for the sex-specific begging calls of nestlings has not been reported. It may be the case that parents discriminate against offspring that make ambiguous signals of their sex. Young birds sexually imprint...
flash‐lag effect Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
...and Brain Sciences , 31. —— and Khurana, B. (in press). Space and Time in Perception and Action . —— and Kirschfeld, K. (2003). ‘ Analogous mechanisms compensate for neural delays in the sensory and the motor pathways: evidence from motor flash‐lag ’. Current Biology , 13. Purushothaman, G. , Patel, S. S. , Bedell, H. E. , and Ogmen, H. (1998). ‘ Moving ahead through differential visual latency ’. Nature , 396. Ratliff, F. (1965). Mach Bands: Quantitative Studies on Neural Networks in the Retina . Schlag, J. and Schlag‐Rey, M. (2002)....
Infant and Child Mortality Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India (3 ed.)
...to health services and the greater directly and indirectly acquired health knowledge in the towns is not enough to compensate for the overcrowding and pervasive poverty that kills so many slum children before they can celebrate a first birthday. Other kinds of differentials are just as pernicious and imply that egalitarianism and equity are somewhat hollow slogans in India. The NFHS data are particularly revealing about differentials by caste, a category that is supposed to be unimportant in modern India. This same national average of an IMR of 73 hides...
Halsey Frederick A. (1856–1935) Reference library
The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management
...their system of weights and measures as a foundation, the English-speaking peoples have built up the greatest commercial and industrial structure the world has known. This system they are asked to abandon for the benefit of others at a cost that is beyond estimate, and for compensating advantages that to themselves are wholly trivial and imaginary. They are asked to enter the slough of despond in which metric Europe wallows in order to help metric Europe out. ( Halsey 1904: 12) Bibliography Drury, H. B. (1915) Scientific Management , New York: Columbia...
Wages Reference library
Peter Scholliers
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
...because they disclose crucial developments and express complex matters in simple terms. Wage Evolution and Differentials In 1955 , H. Phelps Brown and S. Hopkins published the daily wage of craftsmen and laborers in the Southern English building trade from 1264 to 1954 . Four features stand out: the infrequency of change (none in 500 of the 690 years), the rare declines (only three: 1887 , 1920s, and 1930s), the stable differential (the laborer earned two-thirds of a craftsman's wage up to 1914 ), and the sensational increase in the long run...
