Gender segregation of jobs plays a central role in current research on gender and labor markets, and understanding the mechanisms driving the gender segregation has become a key focus of study. While the literature on gender segregation of jobs often invoke gender sorting mechanisms that operate pre-hire, the data that are used to empirically examine these processes are almost always collected ...

OBJECTIVES Sickness absence in workplaces may reflect working conditions. It may also reflect a "healthy hire effect," i.e., that workplaces recruit individuals with experience of sickness absence differently. The purpose of the study was to determine if a history of sickness absence among recruits is associated with the average level of sickness absence in workplaces. MATERIAL AND METHODS In...

Employers' negative attitudes and fears have long been a barrier to the employment of individuals with disabilities Accordingly, attitude literature on the employment of people with disabilities has focused almost exclusively on employers However, due to their influence over business practices, the successful employment of people with disabilities is also contingent on the views of the consumer...

Due to thewideapplicationof the taskassignmenton the internet, teamformationproblemhas becomeanimportantresearchissue.ArecentlyproposedproblemClusterHireaimstofindateam ofexperts toaccomplishmultipleprojectswhichcanharvest amaximumprofitundera limited budget.However,thereexistredundanciesintheteamyieldedbyexistingalgorithms.Thispaper f...