Organizations have significantly increased their use of contracting in information systems (IS), hiring contractors to work with permanent professionals. Based on theories of social exchange and social comparison, we hypothesize differences in work attitudes, behaviors, and performance across pe on Weber was the accepting senior editor for this paper. ' ~ n earlier version of this paper won the...

INTRODUCTION Emergency department overcrowding is a serious problem nationwide. Of an estimated 14 million visits to hospital emergency departments, only 12.9% are considered emergent. Many emergency departments, however, employ only physicians despite the fact that nurse practitioners have a proven record of providing high quality, cost-effective care in the emergency department. The purpose o...

La Inspección de Trabajo sanciona a "Norwegian Shuttle" y la ETT ADECCO por haber suscrito ambas un contrato puesta disposición que encubre una contratación eventual sucesiva fraudulenta 74 trabajadores eventuales durante más dos años. Se plantea en este RCUD si esta conducta constituye infracción grave regulada el art. 18.2.c) LISOS o bien muy contenida 8.2º LISOS. The Labor Inspectorate sanct...

Government firms and authorities often sell services in the free market via affiliated consulting firms (CFs). In this study, I analyse whether these agents have an unfair competitive edge compared to private CFs. The theoretical analysis shows that private and state-owned CFs operate under different conditions. A private CF must choose between having permanent employees and pay full-time wages...

The hiring problem is a simple model of on-line decisionmaking under uncertainty. As in many other such models, the input is a sequence of instances and a decision must be taken for each instance depending on the subsequence examined so far, while nothing is known about the future. One famous example of on-line decision-making the secretary problem, formally introduced in the early sixties. Bro...

This Job Is ‘Getting Old:’ Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure Highand low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and across o...

In both the U.S. and the OECD, highand low-paying occupations expanded relative to middle-wage occupations during the 1990s and 2000s. We explore changes in the age structure of occupations as a means to analyze the reallocation of workers from middleskill occupations towards the tails of the distribution. We posit that occupations typically expand by hiring young workers and contract by curtai...

Abstract An established tenet of the literature is that use flexible labor leads to less innovation. Yet, attention has been paid possibility it decision innovate generates incentive hire on a permanent basis. The goal this paper show existence interlocking complementarities between firm's technological and hiring strategies. To do so, we develop simple model where workers’ invest in human capi...

This study aimed to advance our understanding of inclusive human resource management (HRM) in freelance employment. We examined organizational needs and freelancers' psychological contracts with a qualitative interview among eight dyads HR managers freelancers. Although the findings showed that organisations freelancers have different interests, both parties agreed on what HRM entails employmen...