In December 1998, 15 percent of unemployed jobseekers, and 7 percent of employed persons used the internet to look for a new job. Conditioning on internet access from home, internet job search rates rise to 50 percent of unemployed jobseekers and 15 percent of the employed. Only 9 percent of black, and 7 percent of Hispanic unemployed jobseekers conduct on-line job search, compared to 16 percen...

job shop scheduling problem has significant importance in many researchingfields such as production management and programming and also combinedoptimizing. job shop scheduling problem includes two sub-problems: machineassignment and sequence operation performing. in this paper combination ofparticle swarm optimization algorithm (pso) and gravitational search algorithm(gsa) have been presented f...

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish experiment where the outcome...