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Michaelson, Martin; White, Lawrence – 1996
This paper reviews legal risks associated with staff layoffs at institutions of higher education and methods for managing those risks and describes planning steps designed to minimize institutional legal exposure. Legal risks include claims of breach of contract, discrimination, tortious conduct, and violation of labor laws, collective bargaining…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Dismissal (Personnel), Early Retirement, Economic Factors
Heller, Michael; King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1994
This paper describes a method of projecting inflation-adjusted (real) retirement benefit replacement ratios for defined contribution retirement plans such as TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association--College Retirement Equities Fund). The illustrated ratios are comparable to the ratios in defined benefit plans that result…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Fringe Benefits, Higher Education, Inflation (Economics)