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SEARCH COSTS [6 records]

Record 1 2017-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
OBS

search costs : term extracted from the “Glossaire de l'économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Key term(s)
  • search cost

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

frais de recherche de la contrepartie : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
DEF

The minimum wage at which a worker wil accept work.

CONT

Unemployed workers are shown to be responsive to wage expectations and costs related to job search. Their asking wages(reservation wages) are not set arbitrarily but respond to changing economic circumstances. They are positively related to wage expectations and decrease as the cost of unemployment increases.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
  • Lois du marché (Économie)
CONT

Pour maximiser ses revenus, le chercheur d'emploi doit ajuster le gain qu'il escompte obtenir au coût de la recherche additionnelle. L'offre salariale qui marque ce point d'équilibre se définit sous le nom de taux de salaire d'acceptation.

OBS

«Salaire minimum accepté» : OCDE, Glossaire des termes de la main d'œuvre, des affaires sociales et de l'éducation. «Salaire d'intégration» : Affaires extérieures, CIFE.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Remuneración (Gestión del personal)
  • Leyes del mercado (Economía)
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Record 3 1999-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Urban Studies
  • Economic Planning
CONT

The city of Miami has used the EPA windfall to hire environmental consultants to test the Wynwood property and search for underground tanks. The city recently tore down the former dry cleaner on the site and placed a $130, 000 lien on the property to cover the costs. But getting the owner to pay is unlikely, said Miami economic planner Schwarzreich. The property's owner has been in bankruptcy and has proven difficult to track down. In an attempt to make the property more attractive to a buyer, the city has promised to reduce its lien from $130, 000 to $20, 000.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Urbanisme
  • Planification économique
CONT

L'intervention des planistes-économistes a conduit à une rétrogradation ahurissante d'esprit haussannien, en plus lourd, a resurgi dans les [...] ensembles détruisant l'équilibre et la silhouette de nos grandes villes

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
CONT

A company in an industrial country wants to spare itself the high investment costs of building a special wastes incineration plant on its own turf and mounts a search for an alternative, cheaper way to dispose of the waste. In this situation a highly placed ministry official of a developing country approaches the company with a proposal : for a consideration of three million dollars he would arrange for the trouble-free importation of all of the waste into his country for a five-year period. He would also see to it that the special waste was buried in a remote and, in his perception, secure site.

Key term(s)
  • special waste incineration plant

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
CONT

Le mieux et le plus simple semble être de soumettre les exploitants des décharges contrôlées et des UIOM [usine d'incinération d'ordures ménagères] à une redevance sur les déchets qu'ils pourront répercuter sur les taxes d'enlèvement des ordures ménagères: incinération de déchets en UIOM et en UIDS: 10 francs par tonne de déchets; stockage définitif de déchets et exportation de déchets spéciaux: 20 francs par tonne de déchets.

Spanish

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Record 5 1981-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
OBS

Profit improvement planning is a long-term, systematic campaign directed at a few dozen key areas. The procedure is to identify those costs and revenues which mainly affect profits, set targets for their improvement and then search for ways of achieving these targets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
OBS

[Cette technique] consiste en une campagne portant sur un nombre restreint de points sensibles, tant en dépenses qu'en recettes, qui affectent le plus les bénéfices; on fixe des objectifs d'amélioration et on cherche les moyens de les atteindre.

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Cost Accounting
OBS

Since one person takes into account in the search for individual gain and well-being only private money benefits and costs as seen by him, there will then be a divergence between social costs and pecuniary-private costs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Comptabilité analytique

Spanish

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