Fair Wages When Employers Face the Risk of Losing Money

We study the behavior of employers and employees in a gift exchange game and find that employers offer lower wages when there is the risk of losing money. This, however, does not lead to lower effort level choices. In fact, effort per wage unit is significantly higher in the treatment with potential employer losses. This result can be in line with social comparison theories that are based on relative payoff differences. Alternatively, this result is also in line with the hypothesis that the risk of losing money increases the credibility of the employer's trust signal and, thus, the employee's reciprocity.fair wage, efficiency wage, social comparison, loss aversion

Disciplinary Differences, Rhetorical Resonances: Graduate Writing Groups Beyond the Humanities

When we first established graduate student writing groups across the curriculum at Ohio University in the summer of 2003, we had several goals and outcomes in mind. Initially, we understood the usefulness of these groups as outreach projects to students and faculty in disciplines outside of English and the humanities–in other words, departments that are not always closely affiliated with our writing center. Second, we had a strong desire to help frustrated and often very lonely graduate research writers gain a greater sense of control and authority over their professional projects. Through our work with graduate students across the curriculum, each of us had noticed the gap in our current system of education where, as Carrie Shively describes, “expertise has been formally separated into domain knowledge and rhetorical knowledge. As a consequence, novices may have access to domain knowledge without access to rhetorical knowledge” (56). Given this separation between domain knowledge and rhetorical knowledge, we realized that graduate student writing groups could serve to bridge this gap between the conventions of discourse that are specific to each discipline and the conventions of writing that exist across different disciplines.University Writing Cente

Foreign Corrupt Bribery Act: Long-term Benefits Should Outweigh Short-term Burdens

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Specifically, do long-term benefits from the FCPA outweigh short-term burdens? The paper begins with a short Introduction that provides a roadmap for the overall thesis. Chapter I discusses the business and economic environment of America during the 1970s. Specifically, the focus is on the Watergate scandal and how it played a crucial role in the enactment of the FCPA. Chapter II explains and analyzes specific provisions of the FCPA. It also demonstrates the FCPA‟s relationship to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Chapter III provides a cost/benefit analysis of the FCPA, particularly by looking at the short-term burdens and the long-term benefits of the act. Chapter IV provides two case studies. My conclusion is that with proper adjustments, long-term benefits from the FCPA can outweigh short-term burdens

Impact of the Federal Estate Tax on the LA Dodgers

This paper addresses the impact of the federal estate tax on a family-run business as well as the optimal estate planning techniques that can be implemented to ease the estate tax burden

Foraminifers and nannofossils from upper flysch lithozone in the Tikves Paleogene basin, Republic of Macedonia

In this paper, the results of micropaleontological research of foraminifer fauna and calcareous nannofossils for upper flysch lithozone in Tikvesh basins, stratigraphically important for determining geological age Paleogene complex in the basin, is presented. Rich and diverse nannofossil flora and microforaminifer fauna found in sediments above flysch lithozone of Krivolak section from Tikvesh Paleogene basin, gives an option to identify a biostratographic zone according to benthic foraminifera and nannofossil zone

Geotectonic model of the Alpine development of Lakavica graben in the eastern part of the Vardar zone in the Republic of Macedonia

Lakavica graben is located in the eastern subzone of the Vardar zone, which during the Alpine orogenesis was covered with very complex processes of tectogenesis. On the area of about 200 km2, in the Lakavica graben, are present geological units from the oldest geological periods (Precambrian)to the youngest (Neogene and Quaternary). Tectonic structure, or rupture tectonic, is very intense developed and gives possibility for analysis of the geotectonic processes in the Alpine orogen phase. This paper presents the possible model for geotectonic processes in the Lakavica graben, according to which can be generalized geotectonic processes in the Vardar zone during the Alpine orogeny

Гeотектонски развој на Лакавичкиот грабен во Алпискиот ороген циклус

За време на Алпискиот ороген циклус територијата на Република Македонија била зафатена со многу сложени процеси на тектогенеза. Во Алписката етапа се одиграле главните процеси на тектогенеза, кои имале одраз на целиот простор на Вардарската зона и ја обновиле како неоидна, мошне мобилна геотектонска структура (зона). Притоа, издвоените субзони во Вардарската зона (источна, централна и западна субзона) за време на Алписката орогенеза се карактеризираат со различна манифестација и интензитет на тектонските движења, различен интензитет на магматските процеси и степенот на дислоцираност. Во Вардарската зона јасно се се издвоени тектонските движења поврзани со различни фази во рамките на Алписката орогенеза, издвоени како: раноалписки, средноалписки и касноалписки (неотектонски). Во овој труд се презентирани тектонските процеси во Лакавичкиот грабен кои се случувале за време на Алписката орогенеза на просторот на Вардарската зона

Geological and chemical characteristics of Diatomaceous earth from the deposit Veshje near Negotino - R. Macedonia

This paper presents the results of the geological and chemical research of Diatomaceous earth in the deposit Veshje near by Negotino. The deposit - Veshje belongs to Tikvesh basin which is situated in the central part of Vardar zone. This rich and numerical representation of diatomaceous flora and conditions that were present in the upper lake basin during Pliocene are actually the major factors for the formation of productive layer of Diatomaceous earth. Productive diatomaceous horizon appears in a form of a layer, with a length of 1-2 km and a thickness of 0,6 - 1,25 m, tending to form a spike towards the peripheral parts of the basin. Immediate layers above and below of the productive horizon are the andesite tuffs and agglomerations. Based on chemical analyzes made done on Diatomaceous earth from Veshje, it resulted in the following content: SiO2 - 78.40 %, Al2O3 - 6.40 % CaO - 2.20% and Fe2O3 - 2.60 %. Under this structure, Diatomaceous earth is a quality mineral resource which can be applied for filtration, thermal insulation and many other uses in industry and construction

Биостратиграфија на Овчеполскиот Пелагониски басен, Р. Македонија

Во овој труд, се презентирани резултатите од микропалеонтолошките истражувања на фораминиферната фауна во палеогените седименти на Овчеполскиот басен, стратиграфски значајни за одредување на геолошката старост на палеогениот комплекс во басенот. Богатата и разновидна микрофораминиферна фауна пронајдена во горната флишна литозона, претставена со 63 вида, кои припаѓаат на 31 род и 23 фамилии, овозможи да се идентифицира една биостратиграфска зона по бентосни фораминифер