As a consequence, and despite an infusion of $160 million earmarked for cutting the backlog, the number of pending applications has risen by nearly 60percentt over the last three years, to 6.2 million, according to a recent congressional report.
Markups would have decreased by more, given the influence of backlog and number of bidders in the model.
To reduce the backlog, the number of cataract operations performed each year must at least equal the incidence of operable cataract.
For our results, the partial effect of backlog or number of bidders turns out as hypothesized, too: more bidders in the auction decrease the bid, a higher backlog increases the bid.
By imposing oversight and consequences for erroneous denials at the application level, the hearing backlog, and the number of disabled workers living in poverty, could be significantly reduced.
In Florida, recent modest cuts in home aid came on top of a growing backlog, while the number of people in need keeps climbing.
In Devon and Cornwall, the force has been obliged to create a temporary assistant chief constable position to deal with a backlog in the number of cases involving allegations of gross misconduct.
The ranges of backlog and the number of bidders are chosen such that 99% of all bids are covered.
To assess our two main effects more closely, we show the effect of the backlog and the number of firms on bids in Fig. 5.
Given the training backlog, the high numbers of staff requiring training, and the urgent need of skilled staff, the approach used was stepwise cascade training.
