BACKGROUND One of the consequences of the increasing flexibility in contemporary labour markets is that individuals change jobs more frequently than in the past. Indeed, in many cases, through collecting a lot of contracts, individuals work in the same economic sector or even in the same company, doing the same job in the same way as existing colleagues. A very long literature has established t...

Software industry is acknowledged as an important engine of economic growth for many developing and under developed countries. Software development is a service that is both labour and knowledge-intensive. Nowhere are human resources as critically important as in the software sector. Human resources are not only the drivers and principal value-creators of the output of this industry; they are a...

A recent line of work, starting with Beigman and Vohra [3] and Zadimoghaddam and Roth [28], has addressed the problem of learning a utility function from revealed preference data. The goal here is to make use of past data describing the purchases of a utility maximizing agent when faced with certain prices and budget constraints in order to produce a hypothesis function that can accurately fore...

From the Works Progress Administration of the New Deal to the Job Corps of the Great Society era, employment programs have been advanced to fight poverty and social disorder. In today’s context of stubborn unemployment and neoliberal policy change, supported work programs are once more on the policy agenda. This article asks whether work reduces crime and drug use among heavy substance users. A...

At the end of 2003, national and local newspapers carried stories of worsening economic conditions for Americans. For the second year in a row, household income fell and the poverty rate rose. Midwesterners and people of color were particularly hard hit. Minnesotans, however, escaped the worsening economic situation. In Minnesota, median income and the poverty rate remained level. In 2002, medi...

In this paper we will analyze the performance of job scheduler based on many parameters considering the criticality of job. Many job scheduling algorithms have been devised which affect the performance of the system in their own way. Improvement in job scheduling strategies will play a pivotal role in increasing the overall performance of the system. In this work we discuss some basic job sched...

Using North Carolina data for the period 1990-2010, we estimate the effects of economic downturns on the birthrates of 15- to 19-year-olds, using county-level business closings and layoffs as a plausibly exogenous source of variation in the strength of the local economy. We find little effect of job losses on the white teen birthrate. For black teens, however, job losses to 1 % of the working-a...