We compare two alternative ways of measuring workers’ marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for four non-standard working arrangements: flexitime, part-time, night work, and rotating shifts. The first method is based on job-to-job transitions within a job search framework, while the second is based on estimating the determinants of subjective well-being. Using BHPS panel data from 1991-2008, we rel...

Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related...

An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany This study analyses the effects of public-sector-sponsored continuous vocational training and retraining in East Germany after unification with West Germany in 1990. It presents econometric estimates of the average gains from training participation in terms of employment probabilities, earnings, and...

Abstract Background Brown plant hopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stal.) a very damaging pest to rice crops. One of the efforts control it is use entomopathogenic fungi (EPF). Three fungal local isolates found in Indonesia were effective controlling brown pest. This study aimed molecularly identify 3 isolates. Molecular identification important get exact identity these fungi. The accuracy EPF will gre...

We estimate the effect of initial episodes under fixed-term contracts (FTCs) on job duration in the further course of the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However, exit rates fall below those of compara...

This study examines the effect of a community-based work experience program Work for the Dole (WfD) on transitions out of unemployment in Australia. To evaluate the WfD program a quasi-experimental exact matching approach is applied. Justification for the matching approach is a ‘natural experiment’ limits on WfD project funding that it is argued constituted a source of random assignment to the ...

This paper investigates the UK wage curve using longitudinal micro data drawn from the first eight waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). We estimate a fixed-effects model that controls for observed and unobserved individual-specific heterogeneity. Our results suggest that there is evidence of a negative relationship in wage-unemployment space. The estimated unemployment elasticity...

This paper integrates the classical resource-constrained project scheduling problem with step deterioration and accordingly presents a solution-based tabu search (SB-TS) algorithm to solve it challenging computations. First, we choose successor list size as priority rule generate initial solution of presented methods. Next, corresponding decoding calculation ways are defined update related conf...

Since its advent, the resource constrained project scheduling problem has been a favorite NP-Hard studied by many researchers. In this paper, we examine with focus on total time minimization, usually known as makespan minimization. To end, nature-inspired Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) introduced that works simulating brooding parasitism of some cuckoo birds in nature. nutshell, proposed search ...

The paper addresses the link between productivity and labour mobility. The hypothesis tested is that technology is transmitted across industries through the movement of skilled workers embodying human capital. The embodied knowledge is then diffused within the new environment creating spillovers and leading to productivity improvements. The empirical analysis is based on household survey and in...