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...

Aim/Purpose: To explore the incidence of addiction potential within Iranian public working population, describing how many employees fall diagnostic categories low, moderate, and high potential. Also, to investigate predicting role occupational variables such as perceived stress, job security, satisfaction on belonging categories. Background: Substance among can lead several negative consequenc...

This study employed a survey in examining the important influences that shape a student’s selection of a major in the College of Business (COB). In particular, it compared these influences, by major, to assess which items were most (and least) important to the students majoring in accounting, general business, finance, management, marketing, and MIS. The influences, totaling 37, included intern...

As more and more organizations adopt a “mobile by default” approach to information systems and work design, studying mobile work as a post-adoption phenomenon is both important and timely. Using data collected from 238 Chinese mobile workers, this study develops and validates a model of mobile work continuance. Our findings suggest that the expectation-confirmation framework provides strong the...

When employees care about the level of service provision or its quality, they may be motivated to perform tasks beyond their strict job description. But such care only motivates e¤ort if workers believe it will have an impact, i.e., when what they does ‘matters’ for output, and will not do so to enhance pro...ts. Since nonpro...t status means that management is not directly concerned with pro.....

Background The purpose of this study was to measure the level of quality of work life (QWL) among hospital employees in Iran. Additionally, it aimed to identify the factors that are critical to employees’ QWL. It also aimed to test a theoretical model of the relationship between employees’ QWL and their intention to leave the organisation. Methods A survey study was conducted based on a sample ...

This article describes the characteristics of the longest job held by new disabled-worker beneficiaries responding to questions in the 1982 New Beneficiary Survey, conducted by the Social Security Administration in October-December 1982. The characteristics include pension coverage, job duration, employer type, occupation, and industry. Many disabled workers (about half the men and two-fifths o...