Psychologists have consistently documented people’s tendency to be overconfident about their own ability. We interpret workers’ confidence in their own skills as their morale, and investigate the implication of worker overconfidence on the firm’s optimal wage-setting policies. In our model, a wage contract both provides incentives and conveys to the worker the firm’s opinion about her ability, ...

Mobile email is the extension of Internet email on mobile devices. It is a recent phenomenon, and has not been researched broadly yet. This paper provides a contribution to fill this gap and investigates the domestication of mobile email in Swiss companies. The research showed that mobile email is becoming an important tool, in particular for mobile workers. It enables an efficient use of short...

We study a labor market described by a many-to-one matching market with externalities among firms in which each firm’s preferences depend not only on workers whom it hires, but also on workers whom its rival firms hire. We define a new stability concept called weak stability and investigate its existence problem.We show thatwhen the preferences of firms satisfy an extension of substitutability ...

in recent decades, empowerment has been used as a mechanism to improve the quality of women’s personal life and career. in this respect, information technology can be used as an effective instrument to meet that end. the purpose of this study is to examine gender roles in inclination of men and women towards using information technology in agricultural extension. the study is conducted in gilan...

were scalped when their hair became entangled around the inadequately guarded rotating drivelines or shaft of farm machinery driven by power takeoffs (PTOs). Such entanglement of hair, clothing, or body parts kills and injures many farm workers each year. The recommendations In this Alert will help prevent these entanglement Injuries and deaths. The National Institute for Occupational Safety an...

This study aims to determine community empowerment based on entrepreneurship in urban farming and analyze the efforts that can be made by agricultural extension workers, government developing KWT Anggrek. uses a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques form of observation methods, interviews documentation. The results this indicate at Anggrek has been well implemented, marked assistance...

Land surface radiation and energy budgets are critical to address a variety of scientific and application issues related to climate trends, weather predictions, hydrologic and biogeophysical modeling, and the monitoring of ecosystem health and agricultural crops. This is an introductory paper to the special issue of land surface radiation and energy budgets from an international conference on t...

Prior Converted Croplands (PCCs) are historic wetlands that were transformed (drained, dredged, filled or leveled) to support production of agricultural crops prior to “Swampbuster” provisions of the 1985 Food Security Act. Our research suggests that PCCs can substantially reduce nitrate export from agricultural watersheds in the region, an ecosystem function shared with natural and restored we...

With this presentation, my role is to help to stir the discussion. Perhaps it will open the dialogue so that we have a sense of where we have been, where we are, and then what’s ahead. Figure shows a photograph from 986, and in Figure is a photograph taken two years later. We developed a tomato phenotype—viral coat-protein-mediated resistance to a common disease of tomato—with a technology that...