Total compensation is divided into current and deferred elements. Deferred portions are mainly composed of pensions and health benefits to which an employee is entitled upon retirement. Early pensions were designed to provide income security through a stream of payments, guarant…
Over the past 40 years, performance-based funding has become a common tool of state legislatures to hold institutions accountable for student outcomes. Performance funding allocates state money to institutions based on a specific set of measures. However, states vary in the meas…
The number of U.S. higher education institutions (HEIs) that offer study abroad increased 100% between 1996-2015 while student participation rates held steady at approximately 1% of all college students during the same period. Study abroad can place significant financial demand …
This dissertation contains three articles that focus on several ways to measure human and social capital and their links to different entrepreneurial outcomes. The study begins by providing an overview of entrepreneurship policy research, highlighting the need for an interdiscip…