Most species of social insects have singly mated queens, but in some species each queen mates with numerous males to create a colony whose workers belong to multiple patrilines. This colony genetic structure creates a potential for intracolonial nepotism. One context with great potential for such nepotism arises in species, like honey bees, whose colonies reproduce by fissioning. During fission...

New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study effects of on labor market outcomes developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis impacts across cohorts. Does young differently than older workers? Do tend perform routine tasks? Are occupations more exposed negative ...

It is no question today that human capital one of the most important corporate assets employers need to manage wisely and in line with company's objectives. Businesses are seeking employ people skills best match employers' expectations. In past, companies focused primarily on hard skills, but there also a growing focus soft employees, which not easy acquire or develop. The present study deals e...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that adolescent workers are at greater risk for work injury. AIMS To investigate the severity of work injuries across age groups. METHODS Workers' compensation records were used to examine work related injuries among adolescents (15-19 years old), young adults (20-24 years old), and adults (25+ years old) between 1993 and 2000. The incidence of compensat...

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria experienced a dramatic rise in the share of alien workers as a result of the breakdown of the former communist regimes (especially from former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on unemployment entry of young male workers, who are supposed to compete most heavily with new immigrants. Ou...

The cluster analysis and the classification trees technique are applied to investigate the relationship between the individual characteristics of the Italian THA (temporary help agency) workers and their probability to achieve a temporary job. The application aims to show some advantages of these techniques with respect to the traditional econometric tools. The sketches of the most common profi...

OBJECTIVE We examine the workplace experiences of Ontario youth in the service sector, with a particular interest in hazard exposures, safety training and supervision. METHOD A cross-sectional telephone survey in 2008 of working youth aged 14-18. Items queried respondents about the tasks performed, worker training and supervision. The study parallels one already published in the US. This is t...