Dimensions of Public Sector Pay Policies in the United States and Sweden

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Recascino Wise
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Dimension

Three dimensions for analyzing public sector pay administration are used to examine central government pay administration in Sweden and the United States of America. On the first dimension, market posture, both countries are found to fall short of their espoused policy, comparability. Greater consistency is found on the second dimension, social orientation, where both countries have pursued the goal of social equality. The equilization of salary levels across society is far greater in Sweden in keeping with the socialist objectives of wage solidarity. The third dimension, reward structure, shows the greatest distance between the two countries with the struggle to implement performance-contingent pay underway in the U.S. while Swedes continue to rely on longevity for pay increases.

What is mental health consultation?

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Luntz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Mental Health Consultation ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Health Consultation ◽  
The Third

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in consultation at the close of the third decade of its existence as a major form of delivering mental health services in the United States of America, and its somewhat later introduction in Victoria, Australia. Gallessich’s framework for consultation (1983, 1985), amongst others, is compared with the Victorian model. Issues raised include the need for consultants to understand the boundaries of consultation, its limitations, the state of its knowledge base and the uniquely Victorian contribution of a framework of several levels which enables an integration of the knowledge borrowed from a range of sources to assist in the improvement of its practice. A later paper to be published in ‘Children Australia’ looks at the steps in the consultation process.

scholarly journals Análisis de indicadores de ventajas comparativas reveladas: competitividad de las exportaciones de fresa (Fragaria spp.) mexicana

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Quintero-Ramírez ◽  
José Miguel Omaña-Silvestre ◽  
Laura Cecilia Ramírez-Padrón
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Entire Volume ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

China and the main United States of America producing strawberry countries in 2016, contributed as a whole more than forty per cent of the entire volume of strawberry produced in the world. Spain, the United States of America, Mexico and Netherlands are the main exporting countries, while the main importer countries were the United States of America, Germany, Canada, France and the United Kingdom; the same year, Mexico occupied the third place like producing and third place between the exporting countries. In the previous context, this one investigation raises the analysis of the competitiveness of the strawberry produced in Mexico as regards Spain and the United States of America those who are the biggest exporters of the product on a global scale; by means of the calculation of the index of revealed comparative advantage of Vollrath (IVCR) for the period 1994-2016, the analysis of the indicator recounts that the competitiveness was increasing and that Mexico is provided with a comparative advantage revealed in the strawberry exportation

What can Thomas Jefferson’s accounting records tell us about plantation management, slavery, and Enlightenment philosophy in colonial America?

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Richard Baker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Plantation Management ◽  
The Third ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Principal Author ◽  
Enlightenment Philosophy

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States of America and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence of the American Colonies from Great Britain. Less well known is that he was a meticulous record keeper. He kept daily records of every receipt and expenditure that he made, no matter how small, for a period of over 60 years. Most of these records have survived and are located in various libraries throughout the United States. Two questions are raised in this article: first, what can Jefferson’s accounting records tell us about plantation management in colonial America? Second, what do these accounting records reveal about Jefferson’s perspectives on eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy? This article investigates original archives in an effort to answer these questions.

Can We Expect More than Symbolic Support?

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Bereket Habte Selassie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Values ◽  
American Presidency ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

When I think about the extraordinary writing and speaking phenomenon by the name of Barack Obama, who also happens to be the President of the United States of America, the most powerful country in the world, I can't help asking myself, what can he do for Africa? I ask this not only because he is a son of Africa, but also because I hear in his speeches the words of a man deeply committed to human values, and therefore concerned with the predicament of Africa's people in this age of globalization.As the first African American elected to the American presidency, Obama represents an extraordinary symbolic change in American politics. No one can underestimate the symbolic significance of his election. Nor should it be considered purely a matter of symbolism; a changing of the guard at the top necessarily involves—or should involve—implications of substantive change. There is the rub—can we expect substantive change of any significance from his election, given the nature and structure of American politics and society?In connection with that question it is fair to ask: what does the Age of Obama portend for Africa? Two related questions arise concerning this: first, what should Obama do for Africa, and second, what can he do for Africa? As to the first question, what Obama should do for Africa is linked to Africa's need; and we can spend a whole day talking about that and not exhaust it. On the basis of Obama's speeches, including especially his Accra speech of July 11, 2009, and our own sense of Africa's needs, I offer three primary talking points that embrace a set of values or goals upon which all government systems should be based. The first is peace and stability, the second is sustainable economic development and social justice, and the third is democracy and good governance—not necessarily in that order.

scholarly journals Editorial

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range

This is the first issue in the third year of publication of the Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics. As usual the articles included cover a wide range of topics and come from a spread of different countries; in this case Belgium, the United States of America, Australia and Malaysia.

The United States — Israel Tax Convention

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-433
Author(s):  
Amnon Rafael ◽  
David Efrati
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Senate ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mutual Interest ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Foreign Tax Credit ◽  
The Government ◽  
State Of Israel

The Convention between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the State of Israel with Respect to Taxes on Income has reached its final stages of ratification. This is the third attempt of the two governments to reach agreement on tax questions of mutual interest. The United States Senate failed to ratify the first proposed convention because of the inclusion of a “tax sparing” clause. Although the second attempt would have granted U.S. taxpayers an investment credit for investments in Israel, in lieu of the tax sparing, this substitute was still not considered sufficiently neutral to accord it ratification.The present attempt makes use of the foreign tax credit as its primary means of alleviating double taxation.

Organ accompaniment to silent films, part 3 – the activity of Robert Hope-Jones and its importance

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Filip Presseisen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Silent Films ◽  
Final Shape ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Organ Type ◽  
Place Of Origin

The idea to write music for silent films, both in a form of written-down scores and composed live has experienced its renaissance for more than ten years. Thanks to a quite decent number of preserved theatre instruments and also due to the globalisation and wide data flow options connected with it, the knowledge and interest in Anglo-Saxon tradition of organ accompaniment in cinema were able to spread away from its place of origin. The article is the third part of four attempts to present the phenomenon of combination of the art of organ improvisation with cinematography and it was based on the fragments of the doctoral thesis entitled “Current methods of organ improvisation as performance means in the accompaniment for silent films based on the selected musical and visual work”. The dissertation was written under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Karolak and was defended at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in 2020. The article focuses on the profile of Robert Hope-Jones, an eccentric creator of cinema organ. It describes the period preceding the time when typical theatre instruments called “Mighty Wurlitzer” acquired their final shape, i.e., from the introduction of first electromagnetic tracture innovations in England, to the establishment of Hope Jones’s collaboration with the Wurlitzer company in the United States of America and the creation of instruments of the Unit Organ type.

Central Government Policies towards Declining Urban Economies in Western Europe and the United States of America

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Wolman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Central City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Urban Economies

Most large urban areas in the advanced market-economy nations of the West are experiencing a decentralization trend, with population and industrial employment moving from central city to suburb. In some large metropolitan areas the entire area is losing population, and employment is either growing very slowly or declining. In the United States of America and the United Kingdom these trends have triggered a substantial amount of public concern and debate and a variety of policies designed to focus on the problems of large urban economies. In most European countries, however, metropolitan population and employment stabilization or decline are either not perceived as problems or are just beginning to be seen as such. Indeed, in many of these countries the decentralization of population and employment from large urban areas is seen as consistent with the long-term objectives of regional policy. This article first summarizes urban-area population and employment trends in the USA, the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the Federal Republic of Germany. It then examines the way in which these trends are perceived in each of these countries and, in particular, whether they are thought to represent a ‘problem’. Finally, it sets forth and analyzes the public policies adopted by the national governments to address these problems, to the extent they are perceived to exist.

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