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Author: Joonmo Son Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415595223 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 194
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This book uses new empirical data to test how social capital works in different societies with diverse political-economic and cultural institutions. Taking a comparative approach, this study focuses on data from three very different societies, China, Taiwan and the United States, in order to reveal the international commonalities and disparities in access to, and activation of, social capital in labor markets. In particular, this book tests whether political economic and cultural differences between capitalist and socialist economic systems and between Western and Confucian cultures create different types of individual social networks and usages.
Author: Eric Alan Hanushek Publisher: ISBN: Category : Poor children Languages : en Pages : 35
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Search theory suggests that early career job changes on balance lead to better matches that benefit both workers and firms, but this may not hold in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial differences in working conditions that are difficult for institutions to alter. Of particular concern to education policy makers is the possibility that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children. Although such schools experience higher turnover on average than others, the impact on the quality of instruction depends crucially on whether it is the more productive teachers who are more likely to depart. The absence of direct measures of productivity typically hinders efforts to measure the effect of turnover on worker quality. In the case of teachers, however, the availability of matched panel data of students and teachers, enables the isolation of the contributions of teachers to achievement despite the complications of purposeful choices of families, teachers, and administrators. The empirical analysis reveals that teachers who remain in their school tend to outperform those who leave, particularly those who exit the Texas public schools entirely. Moreover, this gap appears to be larger for schools serving predominantly low income students, evidence that high turnover is not nearly as damaging as many suggest.
Author: Dominique Demougin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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We consider a job matching model where the relationships between firms and wealth-constrained workers suffer from moral hazard. Specifically, effort on the job is non-contractible so that parties that are matched negotiate a bonus contract. Higher unemployment benefits affect the workers' outside option. The latter is improved for low skilled workers. Hence they receive a larger share of the surplus, which strengthens their effort incentives and increases productivity. Effects are reversed for high skilled labor. Moreover, raising benefit payments affects the proportion of successful matches which induces some firms to exit the economy and causes unemployment to increase.
Author: John M. LEIMAN Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 18
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The paper provides: a description of a model for the man-job matching process; a discussion of the various constraints and assumptions necessary to make the model applicable to typical operational conditions; and a discussion of the state-of-the-art in the prediction of job performance in new assignments. 'Hard' variables are defined as personal characteristics which are related to measurements of a man's current skills and knowledge -these were found to account for about half the variance in job performance in new assignments. 'Soft' variables are defined as personal characteristics related to a man's motivation or the manner in which he applies his skills and knowledge in new situations -- these were found to have only marginal utility in the prediction of performance in new assignments. The paper then describes a procedure for developing job performance indices which are required inputs to the man-job matching model described earlier. (Author).
Author: Philipp Kircher Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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We develop an equilibrium directed search model of the labor market where workers can simultaneously apply for multiple jobs. The main result is that all equilibria exhibit wage dispersion despite the fact that workers and firms are homogeneous. Wage dispersion is driven by the simultaneity of application choice. Risk-neutral workers apply for both "safe" and "risky" jobs. The former yield a high probability of a job offer, but for low pay, and act as a fallback option; the latter provide with higher potential payoff, but are harder to get. Furthermore, the density of posted wages is decreasing, consistent with stylized facts. Unlike most directed search models, the equilibria are not constrained efficient.
Author: Steve Leach Publisher: Transaction Publishers ISBN: 9781843100522 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 230
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This workbook presents strategies based on real situations and includes example exercises throughout. It is based on the principle of developing a client-centred approach to job development and emphasizes the central importance of self-determination - ensuring that the individual makes their own choices to determine their future career.
Author: Philippe Baptiste Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9780792374084 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 218
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Constraint Programming is a problem-solving paradigm that establishes a clear distinction between two pivotal aspects of a problem: (1) a precise definition of the constraints that define the problem to be solved and (2) the algorithms and heuristics enabling the selection of decisions to solve the problem. It is because of these capabilities that Constraint Programming is increasingly being employed as a problem-solving tool to solve scheduling problems. Hence the development of Constraint-Based Scheduling as a field of study. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the most widely used Constraint-Based Scheduling techniques. Following the principles of Constraint Programming, the book consists of three distinct parts: The first chapter introduces the basic principles of Constraint Programming and provides a model of the constraints that are the most often encountered in scheduling problems. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 are focused on the propagation of resource constraints, which usually are responsible for the "hardness" of the scheduling problem. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are dedicated to the resolution of several scheduling problems. These examples illustrate the use and the practical efficiency of the constraint propagation methods of the previous chapters. They also show that besides constraint propagation, the exploration of the search space must be carefully designed, taking into account specific properties of the considered problem (e.g., dominance relations, symmetries, possible use of decomposition rules). Chapter 9 mentions various extensions of the model and presents promising research directions.
Author: Joonmo Son
Author: Eric Alan Hanushek
Author: Mark Daniel Treleven
Author: Dominique Demougin
Author: Mark Fox
Author: John M. LEIMAN
Author: Bertil Holmlund
Author: Philipp Kircher
Author: Steve Leach
Author: Jing Shen
Author: Philippe Baptiste