Introduction We present a real-world online scheduling application. In this application, the problem input is fed incrementally to the scheduler, and the scheduler has only a portion of the entire job available before it has to start making scheduling decisions. In fact, job submission, scheduling and execution may all happen in parallel and at different speeds. We are investigating constraint-...

Despite the advantages IT has brought to the users, it can also invisibly produce negative impacts at the same time. There have been many cases in recent years showing that mobile technology users receive various kinds of negative feelings due to the ubiquitous nature of this technology. The purpose of this study is to propose a notion termed “ubiquitous technostress” which is the stress caused...

In order to reduce the long commuting times for office workers, Fuji Xerox began experimenting with satellite offices. In this paper I will report on changes in the work styles of office workers working in satellite offices. The changes relate to job planning, independence, computer literacy, information sharing, job task concentration, communication, productivity, skill specialization, and tim...

Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive? We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search. Workers differ in their productivity, and search takes place along an extensive margin. An additional job seeker affects the quality of unemployed workers. As a result, the Hosios conditions are no longer valid. To replicate the o...

This paper presents a theoretical model that combines employers learning about worker productivity, human capital acquisition, job-assignment and resolution of worker uncertainty regarding disutility of work from a job, to show how widely documented findings on both wage and promotion dynamics and turnover can be captured in a single set-up. Specifically we show how our model can capture result...

Surveys in several office buildings have shown that crowded work places, job dissatisfaction and physical environment are the main factors affecting productivity. the data was produced and analyzed using occupational stress indicator in conjunction with the analytical hierarchical process. thermal problems, stuffiness, sick building syndrome factors and crowded work places were most frequent co...

To study the impacts of reductions in employer’s social security contributions, we construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with different types of workers (and wages), search unemployment and endogenous job destruction rates. Our model reproduces the empirical evidence that the impacts on employment, of reductions in contributions at the minimum wage level, go through a decrease in...

Pensions and Training Economic analysis of private pensions commonly assumes that incentives for long tenure and early retirement enhance workforce productivity. An implication of the productivity theory of pensions is that workers who receive job training are more likely to be covered. We test this prediction with data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). We find a strong positive relatio...

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. JEL Codes: D8, J6 Keywords: Search, Matching, Efficiency, Participation, Hosios Rule a Corresponding author: Department of Economics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA, Telepho...