OBJECTIVE This study examines the psychometric properties of the revised Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES-2010) in a context of economic crisis and growing unemployment. METHODS Data correspond to salaried workers with a contract (n=4,750) from the second Psychosocial Work Environment Survey (Spain, 2010). Analyses included acceptability, scale score distributions, Cronbach's alpha coef...

Division of labour (DoL) in multi-robot systems or multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is a challenging research issue in the field of multi-agent and multi-robot systems. We propose to solve MRTA problems using a set of previously published generic rules for DoL derived from the observation of ant, human and robotic social systems. These bottom-up rules describe the phenomenon of self-regulated...

In this paper, we formalize the view that economic development requires high rates of productive entrepreneurship, and this requires an efficient matching between entrepreneurial talent and production technologies. We first explore the role of financial development in promoting such efficient allocation of talent, which results in higher production, job creation and social mobility. We then sho...

We employ an experimental labour setting to study fairness in the division of gains from productive activity. The focus is on the impact of power structures on allocation decisions and on fairness perceptions. Two types of actors are involved in generating a gain, but only one of them contributes actively by completing a realeffort task. In three treatments, decision power to divide the gain is...

For labour-intensive field, appropriate storage location assignment is the best choice to increase order picking efficiency and reduce order cycle time, which satisfy customers and reduce cost at the same time. In this paper, we advance a storage location assignment for fresh food distribution center with a manual picker-to-parts picking system by using an optimized approach. To reflect the cus...

Globalisation is a phenomenon that cannot be avoided. As globalisation allowed free flow of inputs including labour, it may affect job opportunities for the locals. Therefore, investigate the determinants of labour supply is essential in understanding the structure of labour market in the new era of globalization. The objective of this article is to examine labour supply by taking into account ...

Women’s time allocation is a dimension of women’s empowerment in agriculture, and recognised as pathway through which agriculture can affect child nutritional status developing countries. Longer hours farm work potentially increase constraints, reducing the allocated to child-caring responsibilities raising risk poor status. Using three-wave household panel dataset from Feed Future Innovation L...

BACKGROUND No published quantitative instrument exists to measure maternal satisfaction with the quality of different models of labour care in the UK. METHODS A quantitative psychometric multidimensional maternal satisfaction questionnaire, the Women's Views of Birth Labour Satisfaction Questionnaire (WOMBLSQ), was developed using principal components analysis with varimax rotation of success...

T debate surrounding the nature of “Europeanisation” has been raging in the EU for a number of years. It raises a variety of issues regarding the impact of the EU and its effects on the domestic politics and institutions of member states. In terms of labour law, the EU has, over the years, attempted to Europeanise national labour law systems directly and indirectly by introducing measures under...