Canada Pay Equity: Fairness is in the Eyes of the Beholder BY HERMANN SCHWIND Statistics from StatsCanada have shown for years that women earn about 80% of men’s wages and salaries. Unions’ and women’s groups have used this wage gap as evidence of discrimination against women and as a basis for demands for more effective legislation on pay equity. They will not accept any evidence that this is impossible‚ i.e.‚ that there are no objective measures to assess the monetary value of a job and
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neighbor subsequently built a fence or structure which blocked the sun’s rays. The guy was adjudged to have a common law right to the sunshine‚ more or less on old common law water-rights law and the neighbor lost. This particular case involved equity as well. Equity came into play when there was no precedent for the case at hand. This happens even today. If there is something for the court to adjudicate‚ but no guiding precedent or statute to guide how the case is to be decided‚ the judge (perhaps through
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Brand equity is considered a key indicator of the state of health of a brand‚ and its monitoring is believed to be an essential step in effective brand management (Aaker‚ 1991‚ 1992). Both researchers (e.g. Shocker et al.‚ 1994) and practitioners (e.g. Biel‚ 1992) have argued for the importance of understanding the concept of brand equity. Country of origin is another important variable influencing consumer perceptions of brands (Hulland‚ 1999) and brand images (Ahmed et al.‚ 2002). In the present
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9-296-077 REV: APRIL 27‚ 2006 KENNETH A. FROOT ANDRÉ F. PEROLD Global Equity Markets: The Case of Royal Dutch and Shell In early January 1996‚ Ms. Joanne Partridge‚ Director of Research at High Street Global Advisors (“High Street”)‚ a Boston-based global investment management organization‚ was studying the price behavior of the shares of Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading. It seemed that Royal Dutch and Shell should trade in fixed proportions since they represented equivalent
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Running Head: PRIVATE EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Private Equity in South East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities Syahril Malik Daniels College of Business – University of Denver PRIVATE EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Abstract Private Equity (“PE”) has played a big role in the investment world‚ not only because it generates relatively more return for the investors compared to other forms of investments‚ but also it has a huge market capitalization in terms of invested
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A PROJECT REPORT ON “Awareness Of Derivatives And Its Comparison With Equity And Commodity.” BY POOJA JAYASWAL UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF VIJAY SONAJE (INDIRA GLOBAL BUSINESS SCHOOL) FOR THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF COURSE MBA (FINANCE) INDIRA GLOBAL BUSINESS SCHOOL 2011-2013 Acknowledgement In my summer training at Edelweiss Financial Advisors Ltd.‚ I got a very pleasant experience of practically working in an organization. First and foremost‚ I would
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worth the cost should not be in question as the benefits of going to college heavily outweigh the drawbacks. Critics argue that college is not worth the cost‚ because a portion of the population cannot afford it‚ but that argument does not weaken the value of college. Those who cannot afford the cost of going to college should simply not go as the financial burden can be devastating to a family economically‚ but that does not diminish
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I T U T E Building Customer-Based Brand Equity: A Blueprint for Creating Strong Brands Kevin Lane Keller WORKING W O R K I N PAPER G • REPORT P A NO. P E 01-107 R • 2001 S E R I E S M A R K E T I N G S C I E N C E I N S T I T U T E Building Customer-Based Brand Equity: A Blueprint for Creating Strong Brands Kevin Lane Keller
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The Postman Always Rings Twice as Film Noir Tony Garnett’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) seems a quintessential film noir. The title suggests a fateful conclusion for the two main characters—a flawed drifter named Frank (John Garfield) and his restless female conspirator‚ Cora (Lana Turner). Garnett’s crime drama is crafted with the stylish devices usually characteristic of the film noir genre—low-key lighting; a flawed‚ inept hero; and an archetypal femme fatale. Certain
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Why I Came to Snow College Twice I came to Snow College the fall after I graduated high school in 2014. While I was here I did not really care much for my education. Instead I would find any reason I could to not go to class like playing video games or working during class time. I only came because my parents had forced me to. I had no reason to come to snow and after the first semester I packed up and went home. I got a job and began to save my money for a car and a computer. I became a manager
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