The study aims to determine factors affecting the job performance relating cross-cultural adjustment as it affects work stress and adaptation. For this study, research framework was based on flexibility associated with adaptation among expatriates. conducted a sample of 396 expatriates working in hospitality industry Taiwan. Structural equation modeling utilized study. obtained results confirme...

Present study elucidates the probity of ant colony optimization metaheuristic in minimizing the makespan by efficiently allocating jobs to workstations in general aviation maintenance. The metaheuristic technique is applied to real workplace problems in general aviation sector of Pakistan to resolve scheduling quandaries of XT-10 helicopters inspection in Burq Air Services (Pseudo names of orga...

We show that the effects of taxes on labor supply are shaped by interactions between adjustment costs for workers and hours constraints set by firms. We develop a model in which firms post job offers characterized by an hours requirement and workers pay search costs to find jobs. We present evidence supporting three predictions of this model by analyzing bunching at kinks using Danish tax recor...

Start-ups and young firms play a crucial role for US job creation: they grow faster and create more net jobs than older, incumbent firms. Yet since 2007 the number of start-ups in the US has declined by over 20%. Young firm’s below-trend job creation can account for almost all of the persistently high unemployment rate. In this paper I claim that this fact is related to the unprecedented fall i...

This paper examines the use of self-employment among people with disabilities in Europe. Using data from the European Community Household Panel for the period 1995–2001 for 13 European countries we found that people with disabilities were more likely to be self-employed than people without disabilities. Self-employment provides flexibility and a better adjustment between disability status and w...

The present study contributes to theory and practice through the development of a model of shift-work tolerance with the potential to indicate interventions that reduce nurses' intention toward turnover and increase job satisfaction in hospital-based settings. Survey data from 1257 nurses were used to conduct structural equation modeling that examine the direct and indirect effects of superviso...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between psychological demand and job control and demand with psychological distress among nurses. METHODS A cross-sectional study included 502 female nurses working in a public hospital at the city of Salvador, state of Bahia, Brazil. The Demand-Control Model proposed by Karasek to evaluate the association between job control-demand and psychological dist...

Objective: to assess the association between job strain and arterial hypertension (AH). Method: cross-sectional study with random sample of 273 nursing professionals from the municipal healthcare network in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, conducted between September 2008 and January 2009. Job strain was measured using the demand-control model and hypertension by self-report medical diagno...