PURPOSE The Navy Nurse Corps is part of a team of professionals that provides high quality, economical health care to approximately 700,000 active duty Navy and Marine Corps members, as well as 2.6 million retired and family members. Navy Nurse Corps manpower management efficiency is critical to providing this care. This paper aims to focus on manpower planning in the Navy Nurse Corps. DESIGN...

Proposal The process of hiring effective nurses is a difficult task that can have monumental repercussions for medical facilities. If nurses without proper skills are selected, patients can suffer from insufficient quality of care and potentially life threatening conditions. Although the knowledge an applicant receives while being educated to become a nurse is extremely important, there are unt...

In this paper, I consider whether: (1) a dynamic forward-looking model with multiple equilibria can generate persistent fluctuations without persistent sunspots; and (2) indeterminacy is important for these persistent fluctuations. The answer to the first question is a tentative no. The answer to the second question is yes. Extending the approach of Howitt and McAfee (1988, 1992), I work with a...

This paper considers the optimal hiring strategy of a firm that is unable to observe the productive abilities of all its applicants. Whom the firm considers as hireable, will depend crucially on the extent to which the firm can use its wage setting to mirror productivity differences. However, when setting its wages the firm has to consider other factors as well, e.g. turnover, that may make it ...

Abstract Based on a qualitative study the employability of workers without vocational qualification in five different industries, this article examines hiring practices labour market segment low-skilled jobs from sociology conventions perspective. In absence educational signals, employers use personal networks and trial workdays to reduce uncertainty regarding quality job applicants. However, p...

The two main reasons cited by the U.S. tech industry for hiring foreign workers­­remedying labor shortages and hiring "the best and the brightest"­­are not supported by the data, even after excluding the Indian IT service firms. Instead, the primary goals of employers in hiring the foreign workers are to reduce labor costs and to obtain "indentured" employees. Current immigration policy is caus...