The Job Guarantee: Design, Jobs, and Implementation

The Job Guarantee Model and the NAIRU

The Job Guarantee feasibility study: preliminary findings

Design and implementation of the gLite CREAM job management service

Job execution and management is one of the most important functionality provided by every modern Grid systems. In this paper we describe how the problem of job management has been addressed in the gLite middleware by means of the CREAM and CEMonitor services. CREAM (Computing Resource Execution and Management) provides a job execution and management capability for Grids, while CEMonitor is a ge...

Job Satisfaction and the Gender Composition of Jobs∗

Using job satisfaction data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I examine whether people who move to predominantly male jobs are fully compensated through their wages for their new jobs’ disamenities. Estimates from the ordered probit models indicate that women are satisfied with their pay in predominantly male jobs, but dislike the job amenities. In contrast, men appreciate both th...

Scheduling Jobs on Several Machines with the Job Splitting Property

This scheduling model is derived from the real problem of scheduling looms in a textile industry. Jobs may be independently split over several specified machines and preemption is allowed. Deadlines are specified for each job and jobs are assumed to be available. It is shown that minimizing maximum weighted tardiness can be done in polynomial time. The case of uniform machines (as in the consid...