This paper emphasizes the spatial nature of the job search process and analyzes the effects of job accessibility on search duration. A theoretical spatial job search model shows how the pattern and efficiency of job search activity may be affected by spatial labor market conditions. The empirical analysis develops unique measures of job accessibility. The results provide strong support of the s...

A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives’ job loss. The mental well-bei...

The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job finding and subsequent labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative data covering the full population we find that reducing the entitlement period increases the job finding rate, but decreases ...

The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction – Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and theoretical ...

As part of the World Health Organisation initiated MONICA project, 2000 men and women aged 30, 40, 50, and 60 from the general population were invited to undergo a medical examination with special emphasis on cardiovascular disease. A total of 1504 (75%) participated, 1209 of whom were employed. The participants answered a questionnaire on working, social, and health conditions and underwent cl...

This paper investigates the impact of perceived job autonomy on job satisfaction. We use the fifth sweep of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988-2000), which contains personally reported job satisfaction data for a sample of individuals eight years after the end of compulsory education. After controlling for a wide range of personal and jobrelated variables, perceived job autonomy ...

Today, artificial intelligence especially the expert systems are used in science, engineering, business, manufacturing, management and many other fields. Human resource is one of the most strategic resources for a society and so forth for every type of organization, therefore offering a reasonable and intelligent service for employees of an organization is very essential. For this purpose, we h...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the variation in Czech managers’ pay levels. Among the questions we attempt to answer are: Are the managers in state-owned firms compensated differently than those in private owned firms? How much of the difference in pay is explained by differences in individual characteristics and job levels? What is the importance of the regional lo...

This paper addresses the job shop scheduling problem in the presence of machine breakdowns. In this work, we propose to exploit the advantages of data mining techniques to resolve the problem. We proposed an approach to discover a set of classification rules by using historic scheduling data. Intelligent decisions are then made in real time based on this constructed rules to assign the correspo...

We examine several machine learning algorithms for assigning job-categories to a large employee population based on their online directory profiles and reporting structures. This application is an important step in workforce management, and also represents a challenging classification problem which typically contains large-scale unbalanced data, i.e., the distribution of job categories is highl...