Jobs versus environment

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...

Annotated Bibliography: Jobs and the Environment

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 ...

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...

Scheduling of Parallel Jobs in a Heterogeneous Multi-Site Environment

Most previous research on job scheduling for heterogeneous systems considers a scenario where each job or task is mapped to a single processor. On the other hand, research on parallel job scheduling has concentrated primarily on the homogeneous context. In this paper, we address the scheduling of parallel jobs in a heterogeneous multi-site environment, where each site has a homogeneous cluster ...