This paper shows that it is individually rational for agents in a firm to develop and exhibit status concerns. Workers are, by their choices of status concerns, able to transfer surplus from the the firm to themselves. As expected, relative concerns are shaped by the relative strengths and weaknesses of the workers in the firm. Surprisingly, a firm’s profit is reduced relative to the benchmark ...

We would like to thank Human Resources Development Canada for making the data for this study available. We thank the Canadian International Labour Network (CILN) for financial support. CILN receives major funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and McMaster University. We also thank Mike Abbott for helpful comments. A Gallup poll in December 1993 asked Canadia...

Should an organization hire people with similar backgrounds or with di®erent backgrounds? We formulate this question within the framework of team theory. The team manager must ̄ll n jobs and can choose the type of each of the agents she hires. The type of an agent determines his information structure and his market wage. We show that if the team's payo® function is supermodular, then the manage...

Certain wind turbine maintenance tasks require specialist equipment, such as a large crane for heavy lift operations. Equipment hire often has lead time of several weeks but equipment use is restricted by future weather conditions through speed safety limits, necessitating an assessment conditions. This paper sets out methodology producing subseasonal-to-seasonal (up to 6 ahead) forecasts that ...

BACKGROUND: For people with intellectual disability (ID), competitive integrated employment (CIE) offers many important benefits, including opportunities for inclusion as well enhanced mental health and quality of life. Yet, CIE outcomes ID are low. One systemic issue that has not been completely studied is employer willingness to hire workers ID. OBJECTIVE: The aim this study was understand fa...