The aim of this work is to design a Multi-Agent System (MAS) simulation to model the French labor market. We departed from an economic model proposed by Cahuc and Carcillo to model the introduction of a new job contract into the labor market. We designed a specific methodology to convert this equation-based model to an agentbased model, and calibrated our MAS to reproduce the data found in the ...

Previous research has shown that households are sensitive to commuting distance. In particular, households beyond a threshold distance move closer to the job when they change residence. The questions which motivate this paper are-how does race affect the probability of moving closer to the job when households change residence, and is there a trade off between commuting distance and neighborhood...

Background: Job dissatisfaction at work has been associated with low productivity, absenteeism, high turnover, and workers reducing their hours. Little is known about job satisfaction among pharmacists in Saudi Arabia and why they are leaving their profession. This study aims to assess job satisfaction status among Saudi pharmacists working in different practice sites in Saudi Arabia and to exp...

In today's economic upheavals, downsizing, layoffs and mergers have cost hundreds of workers their jobs in banking sector of Pakistan. Many more have been shifted to unfamiliar tasks within their banks and wonder how much longer they will be employed. Adding to the pressures that workers face are new bosses, computer surveillance, fewer health and retirement benefits, and the feeling they have ...

Globalisation has produced changes in economic and social characteristics with no area more affected than job competitiveness and security. A common response has been increased investment in education. Korea has experienced this job insecurity and the associated heightened emphasis on education but the ‘‘localisation of globalisation’’ in Korea has had distinctive impacts. Korea began absorbing...

In Grid computing, the resources of many machines are used to execute jobs submitted by users. One of the research issues in Grid is the allocation process; the mapping of jobs to the various resources. This paper addresses the concept of applying strategies to the scheduling task. To this end a framework for economic scheduling in Grid computing using Tender/Contract-net model is presented. Th...

Among various types of cities, mining cities have special features including a high concentration of industrial activities associated with the exploration, extraction, refining, processing and export of groundwater resources, the risk of reduction and termination of non-renewable resources, high degree of environmental pollution, high production of domestic and industrial waste and social issue...

Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization In 14 member states of the European Union, women’s relative to men’s levels of job satisfaction are compared by using data of the European Household Community Panel. The countries under consideration can be assigned to three different groups. Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands do not show significan...

The paper explores the link between inter-industry wage di¤erences for identical workers and job ‡ows, in particular job destruction rates. I ...nd that, in the manufacturing sector, the two are negatively correlated across 2-digit SIC industries, a fact that most labor market theories fail to explain. A stochastic equilibrium model with endogenous job reallocation and search in the labor marke...

job satisfaction of nurses working in hospitals in zahedan purgaz a , nastiezaie n , hezare mogadam m received: 15 april, 2010 accepted: 27july, 2010 abstract background & aims: one of the most important elements of any organization especially health organizations is human resources. job satisfaction leads to being interested or disinterested. the present study aimed to determine the job satisf...