Asean vision 2020 has a goal of creating economic region unity in southeast Asia that is simultaneously increasing the well-being its member countries. Since canning 1997, asean states have been encouraged to change both international and domestic policies support ultimate goal. As result, people now wider opportunity work region. Recently, Indonesia, as one eleven other countries, changed empl...

My years at MSRI have been immensely exciting and rewarding. The job is incredibly varied, the staff excellent, the community highly supportive. The Institute is prospering, and there are many new opportunities for action. Having done this job since 1997, I feel I see possibilities I would not have understood when I began. I cannot imagine a mathematical-administrative job more exciting than th...

In this paper we explore the effects of redistributive policies in a job search model where different degrees of self-confidence generate different arrival rates of new jobs. We find that the job search model is an useful framework to address behavioral concerns about personal motivation. We find that self-confidence and effort are complements in the performance of search activity. Moreover rew...

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...

AIM This paper presents an evaluation of a career development policy in South Australia which increased the number of senior staff nurse positions and provided senior registered nurses with time away from clinical duties to undertake agreed projects. We use Kanter's model of structural power and commitment theory to understand the dimensions of this policy. BACKGROUND Development strategies f...

We use the publicly-available Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) published by the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program of the U.S. Census Bureau to compute total employment by firm age.1 This dataset provides total employment2 in the private sector tabulated for 5 firm age categories—start-ups (0-1 year-olds), 2-3 year-olds, 4-5 year-olds, 6-10 year-olds, and firms over 11 ...