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  2. Employee benefits - Wikipedia

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    Employee benefits in the United States include relocation assistance; medical, prescription, vision and dental plans; health and dependent care flexible spending accounts; retirement benefit plans (pension, 401 (k), 403 (b) ); group term life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance plans; income protection plans (also known ...

  3. Mandatory spending - Wikipedia

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    Mandatory federal outlays for health programs increased as a result. Recessions. Mandatory spending plays a large role in larger fiscal trends. During economic downturns, government revenues fall and expenditures rise as more people become eligible for mandatory programs such as Unemployment Insurance and Income Security programs.

  4. Mandatory retirement - Wikipedia

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    Mandatory retirement also known as forced retirement, enforced retirement or compulsory retirement, is the set age at which people who hold certain jobs or offices are required by industry custom or by law to leave their employment, or retire . As of 2017, as reported by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), only ...

  5. Personnel economics - Wikipedia

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    Economics. Personnel economics has been defined as "the application of economic and mathematical approaches and econometric and statistical methods to traditional questions in human resources management". [1] It is an area of applied micro labor economics, but there are a few key distinctions.

  6. Compensating differential - Wikipedia

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    Compensating differential. Wage differential is a term used in labour economics to analyze the relation between the wage rate and the unpleasantness, risk, or other undesirable attributes of a particular job. A compensating differential, which is also called a compensating wage differential or an equalizing difference, is defined as the ...

  7. Welfare economics - Wikipedia

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    Welfare economics is a field of economics that applies microeconomic techniques to evaluate the overall well-being (welfare) of a society. This evaluation is typically done at the economy-wide level, [1] and attempts to assess the distribution of resources and opportunities among members of society. The principles of welfare economics are often ...

  8. Defined benefit pension plan - Wikipedia

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    Personal finance. Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns.

  9. Human resources - Wikipedia

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    Trade. Business and economics portal. v. t. e. Human resources ( HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. [1] [2] A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. [3] Similar terms include manpower, labor, labor-power, or personnel .