approximately half of employees over the world work in the gender specific jobs where at least 80 percent of the employees belong to the same gender. in fact, non-agricultural jobs specific to men are seven times more than those of women. this phenomenon shows inflexibility of job market it leads to the reduction in especially for women and decreases the economic efficiency (anker, 1998). gende...

The high cost of searching for employers borne by prospective employees increases friction in the labor market and inhibits formation of e¢ cient employer-employee relationships. It is conventionally agreed that mechanisms that reduce the search costs (e.g., internet portals for job search) lower unemployment and improve overall welfare. We demonstrate that a reduction of the search costs may h...

university-industry collaboration (uic) creates highly skilled and productive business graduates for meeting demand of industry, globalization, knowledge economy, and job market at home and abroad. in coping with ongoing acute competitive pressures of the information edge, higher education curricula of business needs to be intellectually planned, through collaboration between university and ind...

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Scholars and business professionals advocate inter-organizational partnerships as a key strategy for knowledge acquisition. This paper explores the limitations to such strategy by studying the conditions under which partnerships with innovative firms do not materialize. In the context of Corporate Venture Capital (i.e., equity investment in entrepreneurial ventures by established corporations),...

This study empirically tests whether the credit Watchlist creates an implicit contract between debt issuing firms and credit rating agencies (CRAs), whereby the CRA effectively motivates the issuer to take necessary actions that alleviate conditions that might otherwise lower the credit rating and then effectively monitors those actions. Based on Boot Milbourn, and Schmeits (2006), I hypothesiz...

dual job holding is widespread in iran’s labor market, 18% of work force are holding second job in 1993, which increased to 19% in 2003. using a rich three years panel data-set of socioeconomic characteristics of iranian households, the article aims to examine the determinants of dual job holding across the individuals who have participated in the labor market. since the issue of dual job holdi...