BACKGROUND Information on job strain exposure among Malaysian workers in multinational companies is limited. AIMS To investigate the prevalence and factors associated with high job strain among office workers of a multinational company in Malaysia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in November 2007 among 470 eligible workers. Respondents self-administered the Job Content Questio...

A popular perception of the US economy is that small businesses create most of the private sector jobs. However, recent work showed that firm age is a more important determinant of job creation than firm size (Haltiwanger, Jarmin, & Miranda, 2013). The authors show that young firms and start-ups contribute more to job creation in the US economy than do small firms. However, young firms and star...

This paper studies the impact of productivity growth on the rates of worker ‡ows, and thus the unemployment rate. I …nd that in the U.S. labor market, faster productivity growth reduces the separation rate and the unemployment rate in the long-run. I incorporate disembodied technological progress, on-the-job search and sunk costs of creating job positions into a model of endogenous job separati...

Abstract This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation destruction in order to distinguish alternative effects embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a two-sector economy. Disembodied turns out positively affect employment dynamics “upstream” sectors, while expansionary investment does so “downstream” industries. However, th...

2 Preface In the last two decades, trade liberalisation has mainly been a characteristic of developing countries. The consequences have been substantial and widespread in all the branches of these societies. In particular, we would investigate how trade policy affects household's welfare through the labour market channel. The existing literature suggests that in developing countries tariff redu...

C jobs is often the primary goal of economic development policy. To help target their job creation efforts, policymakers generally examine net changes in the official employment figures. But relying solely on net changes can often hide important gross changes that influence the dynamics of job creation and destruction. Knowing where jobs are currently being created and destroyed in an economy c...