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The article focuses on the evaluation of the compensation package for personal lines producers. It is stated that their annual compensation which includes salary, commission and bonus increases with age and experience until age 50, at which it drops slightly, and that renewal commissions make a...
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- Assessing the effects of an early retirement program. Bratberg, Espen; Holmås, Tor Helge; Thøgersen, Øystein // Journal of Population Economics;Aug2004, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p387
We investigate induced retirement effects of the Norwegian early retirement program “AFP†and emphasize effects caused by relocations of some individuals from disability pension and unemployment to AFP. Theoretical considerations predict that AFP unambiguously induces more early...
- Paying for a job for life? Hamilton, Sally // Employee Benefits;Mar2005, p25
The article reports that employees in final salary schemes are lucky, compared with their counterparts in defined contribution schemes who, if taken ill and perhaps retiring early, are likely to get back little more than their pension contributions, if that. While trustees of final salary...
- Access to non-wage benefits is uneven. // Infomat: A Weekly Review;5/30/2003, p4
Focuses on the unevenness and inequality of the accessibility of non-wage benefits. Comparison between the accessibility of non-wage benefits by high wage earners and low wage earners; Other factors which affect the accessibility of non-wage benefits; Steady increase in the cost of non-wage...
- Taking the bite out of workers' comp. Mahon, Joe // Fedgazette;Sep2007, Vol. 19 Issue 5, p12
The article discusses the costs of compensation benefits of workers in the U.S. as of September 2007. It states that premiums paid by employers have lowered since early 1990s for a variety of reasons. Safer workplaces, younger workforce and changes in state regulations that safeguard companies...
