Sentences with phrase «reduces human capital»

Employment screening aids in hiring decisions and reduces human capital risk.

Branch Manager — Adecco 1998 to 2002 Substantially improved productivity by reducing human capital transactions.

The website also features information, tips, and best practices for hiring managers and business owners to reduce human capital risks, improve hiring processes, and stay up - to - date with the latest compliance - related issues.

Michael Gaul is the VP of Business Development for Proforma Screening Solutions, a leading background screening company that provides accurate, efficient, and compliant employment screening services to inform hiring decisions and reduce human capital risk.

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Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism concerns me.15 More open trade with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the long run.

If Spain is ever going to reduce both cyclical and structural unemployment in a sustainable fashion and bring its public finances back to health it needs to generate highly productive jobs and the necessary human capital to serve them.

In so doing, they «increased inequality by stratifying the curriculum, reduced learning by bargaining down consent, and increased costs by extending the demand for educational credentials well beyond the social requirements for human capital.»

Capital equipment intensive activities could share capital and human resources to reduce investment requirements as well as improve resource utilisation, such as reprographics, groundskeeping, general building maintenance, and caCapital equipment intensive activities could share capital and human resources to reduce investment requirements as well as improve resource utilisation, such as reprographics, groundskeeping, general building maintenance, and cacapital and human resources to reduce investment requirements as well as improve resource utilisation, such as reprographics, groundskeeping, general building maintenance, and catering.

The most dramatic claims for «investing in young children» have been made by economist James Heckman, who argues that this is a fundamentally important national strategy for building human capital, enhancing workforce productivity, and reducing welfare - type outlays.

When faced with financial trade - offs, schools tend to protect human capital and reduce technology spending.

Reducing fixed costs, increasing retirement contributions and keeping your human capital fresh — while not the sexiest of plans — is still the one most likely to succeed.

One could argue — on some people do — that, from the perspective of global resource consumption, a world with fewer individuals living in highly developed countries — ie, the places where per capital resource consumption is highest — would be desirable in order reduce the climate impact and resource consumption of the human population.

And a recent study using data from Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare shows that bike share has the potential to reduce even more pollutants harmful to human health by alleviating traffic congestion.

Investments in human capital are low, inequality is high, a regionalized world leads to reduced trade flows, and institutional development is unfavorable, leaving large numbers of people vulnerable to climate change and many parts of the world with low adaptive capacity.

52 • Immune system suppression Natural Capital Degradation Effects of Ozone Depletion Human Health • Worse sunburn • More eye cataracts • More skin cancers • Immune system suppression Food and Forests • Reduced yields for some crops • Reduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton • Disrupted aquatic food webs from reduced phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoCapital Degradation Effects of Ozone Depletion Human Health • Worse sunburn • More eye cataracts • More skin cancers • Immune system suppression Food and Forests • Reduced yields for some crops • Reduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton • Disrupted aquatic food webs from reduced phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoReduced yields for some crops • Reduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton • Disrupted aquatic food webs from reduced phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoReduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton • Disrupted aquatic food webs from reduced phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoreduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton • Disrupted aquatic food webs from reduced phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoReduced population of surface phytoplankton • Disrupted aquatic food webs from reduced phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoreduced phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratocapital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratosphere.

60 • Immune system suppression Natural Capital Degradation Effects of Ozone Depletion Human Health • Worse sunburn • More eye cataracts • More skin cancers • Immune system suppression Food and Forests • Reduced yields for some crops • Reduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoCapital Degradation Effects of Ozone Depletion Human Health • Worse sunburn • More eye cataracts • More skin cancers • Immune system suppression Food and Forests • Reduced yields for some crops • Reduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoReduced yields for some crops • Reduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoReduced seafood supplies from reduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoreduced phytoplankton • Decreased forest productivity for UV - sensitive tree species Wildlife • Increased eye cataracts in some species • Decreased population of aquatic species sensitive to UV radiation • Reduced population of surface phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratoReduced population of surface phytoplankton Figure 20.21 Natural capital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratocapital degradation: expected effects of decreased levels of ozone in the stratosphere.

Investing in early child development is a smart and essential strategy for building human capital, reducing inequities, and promoting sustainable development, argue Bernadette Daelmans and colleagues

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

Building out a professional human resources team can help (1) increase employee satisfaction, and in turn, reduce turnover rates, and (2) optimize spending on payroll and benefits, because of their expertise in human capital development.

Giancarlo said that this transformation could come with consequences — including a greatly disruptive impact on the human capital that supports the recordkeeping of contemporary financial markets — but on the bright side — will help reduce some of the enormous cost of the increased financial system infrastructure required by new laws and regulations.

In addition to protecting against internal theft, a professional screening process can help reduce the other risks of human capital, such as workplace violence.

While it's true that many organizations background check their employees solely due to contractual or regulatory obligations and thus view it purely as an expense, many others view background screening as a way to build competitive advantage by reducing turnover, improving quality of hire, and mitigating human capital - related risks.

Michael will talk about enterprise risk management and the role human capital managers play in driving workforce quality while reducing risk.

When Professor Heckman presents his research on the economics of early childhood to policymakers and advocates, one question is often asked: «If we had X dollars to invest in reducing inequality or promoting human capital development, where should we invest it?»

This presentation offers evidence - based research to support bringing together stakeholders from across health, education, economic development, criminal justice and political parties to reduce inequality, increase human capital and foster economic vitality.

Controlling for childhood human capital reduces the standardized covariation between credit score and heart age from r = − 0.247 to r = − 0.192, a reduction of 22 %.

In contrast to the modest changes in correlation between credit scores and heart age evidenced when adjusting for adverse events and income, adjusting for human capital factors reduced the correlation between credit scores and heart age by 45 % (from r = − 0.247 to r = − 0.136).

This model showed that adjusting for childhood human capital factors reduced the correlation between credit scores and heart age by 22 % (from r = − 0.247 to r = − 0.192).