Jobs and the environment

Annotated Bibliography: Jobs and the Environment

Annotated Bibliography: Jobs and the Environment

The relationship between environmental protection and jobs is well studied in economics and related fields. In the early years of this literature, research was largely concerned with the impacts of environmental regulations on employment and productivity. This emphasis reflected growing concerns in the 1990s about the competitiveness of U.S. industries in an increasingly globalized economy. The...

Long Running Jobs in an Authenticated Environment

Current authentication systems require that a user have a valid token or ticket for a job to run. These tickets are issued with limited lifetimes, and their renewal requires a user to enter her password. We have developed a system called lat with which a user may schedule a batch job to be run at a later date in the current environment. The batch job is stored on a secure machine, and sent and ...

Jobs versus the Environment: An Industry-level Perspective

The possibility that workers could be adversely affected by environmental policies imposed on heavily regulated industries has led to claims of a “jobs versus the environment” trade-off by both business and labor leaders. The present research examines this claim at the industry level for four heavily polluting industries: pulp and paper mills, plastic manufacturers, petroleum refiners, and iron...

Migration, Assignment, and Scheduling of Jobs in Virtualized Environment

Why do we need to care about performance unpredictability in the cloud? Seung-Hwan Lim claimed that unpredictability creates a cascade effect in all the related jobs: a lowperforming outlier dictates the overall performance of the entire application. In order to address this problem, virtual machine (VM) scheduling or reassigning to different physical machines has been considered. Amid VM sched...