The Effects Of Eliminating The Work Search Requirement On Job Match Quality And Other Long-Term Employment Outcomes,
2015
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
The Effects Of Eliminating The Work Search Requirement On Job Match Quality And Other Long-Term Employment Outcomes, Marta Lachowska, Merve Meral, Stephen A. Woodbury
External Papers and Reports
No abstract provided.
A Comparison Study Of Gender Role Differences Between Funeral Professionals And Nurses,
2015
Walden University
A Comparison Study Of Gender Role Differences Between Funeral Professionals And Nurses, David Rocco Penepent
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Women comprise over 57% of all U.S. mortuary school students, yet less than 20% of all funeral directors employed in this country are women. As such, women are underrepresented as funeral directors in the funeral industry. Research to date has not established clear differences between perceived gender roles and occupations in the funeral service industry. The research questions examined the perceived differences of gender role characteristics of masculine, feminine, and androgyny between the occupations of funeral service providers and nursing. Bem's gender role theory was the theoretical framework of this study. The research compared the mean scores of male and …
The Economic Impact Of Transportation Network Companies On The Taxi Industry,
2015
Scripps College
The Economic Impact Of Transportation Network Companies On The Taxi Industry, Alice Wang
Scripps Senior Theses
Transportation Network Companies (TNC) are companies that use online-enabled platforms to connect passengers with drivers. In recent years, they have sparked controversy with the taxi industry, which accuses TNCs of operating unfairly. In my study, I look at taxi regulation, consumer transportation preferences, and costs and benefits of TNCs. I analyze data comparing three of these companies, Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, with a traditional taxicab, and evaluate trends in taxi employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I find that Transportation Network Companies generally have shorter wait times, cheaper prices, and increased convenience, aspects that appeal to consumer preferences. I …
What Is The 'Economic Value' Of Learning English In Spain?,
2015
Scripps College
What Is The 'Economic Value' Of Learning English In Spain?, Molly M. Robbins
Scripps Senior Theses
This paper uses historical and economic references to evaluate the economic value of learning English in Spain. Seeing that English is the lingua franca in politics, business, and technology, it is a necessary skill for Spanish citizens to possess in order to efficiently interact in foreign relations of all kinds. Due to Franco’s harsh language policies, and Spain’s ineffective education system, Spain has lacked the same linguistic exposure to foreign languages—especially English—than the rest of Europe. By referencing the previous literature written about the relationship between language and earnings, this paper seeks to find the economic incentive for Spaniards to …
Wage Distribution Impacts Of Higher Education Faculty Unionization,
2015
Central Washington University
Wage Distribution Impacts Of Higher Education Faculty Unionization, Charles S. Wassell Jr., David W. Hedrick, Steven E. Henson, John M. Krieg
Economics Faculty Scholarship
The literature on the effects of unions on the distribution of wages at the macroeconomic and inter-industry levels has given little attention to the effects at the firm level. At the same time, research on collective bargaining impacts in higher education has focused on the overall wage level rather than on the distribution of salaries. Using panel data on individual faculty members, we find faculty unionization to be associated with a significant flattening of the wage distribution across academic disciplines. This has implications for why faculty might choose to unionize, even in the absence of an overall wage premium.
Industry Career Guide: Health And Wellness,
2015
De La Salle University, Manila
Industry Career Guide: Health And Wellness, Paulynne Castillo, Madel Balane
Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)
The Health and Wellness Services industry belongs to the services sector. The National Statistical Coordination Board (2007) defines it as institutions that cater to the “activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for health and wellness purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited”. Establishments belonging to the industry, therefore, are in engaged in: 1) hospital care and treatment – refer to services offered by public and private hospitals, sanitaria and other similar services; 2) specialty clinics – pertain to …
Industry Career Guide: Construction,
2015
De La Salle University, Manila
Industry Career Guide: Construction, Ma. Concepcion G. Latoja, Dickson A. Lim
Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)
This paper is a career guide on the Philippine construction industry. It provides a general overview into the nature and role of construction in the context of the general macroeconomy, highlights its employment-generating capacity and manpower development prospects, and gives jobseekers and other interested parties a peek into the industry’s likely direction in terms of performance and labor market interface within the next short run cycle.
Industry Career Guide: Wholesale And Retail Trade,
2015
De La Salle University, Manila
Industry Career Guide: Wholesale And Retail Trade, Christopher James R. Cabuay, Paulynne Castillo
Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)
The Wholesale and Retail Trade (WRT) industry belongs to the services sector. In the Philippines, it is generally composed of three divisions, namely: Division 50, which consist of Sale, Maintenance and Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles, Retail Sale of Automotive Fuel, Division 51, on the other hand, which consist of Wholesale Trade and Commission Trade, Except of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles, and Division 52, consisting of Retail Trade, Except of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles, Repair of Personal and Household Goods.
Sapat Na Ba Ang Pagsesenyas Upang Tugunan Ang Di-Pagtutugma Sa Bilihan Ng Paggawa,
2015
De La Salle University-Manila
Sapat Na Ba Ang Pagsesenyas Upang Tugunan Ang Di-Pagtutugma Sa Bilihan Ng Paggawa, Tereso S. Tullao Jr
Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)
Sa harap ng maraming teorya at pananaw sa pagpapaliwanag tungkol sa pagkakaroon ng di-pagtutugma ng kasanayan, sa isang banda, at sa pangangailangan ng mga kompanya, sa kabilang banda, sa bilihan ng paggawa, ang di-timbang na impormasyon ang nangingibabaw na paliwanag. Subalit sa lawak ng impormasyong kinakailangan, at sa magastos na paglikom ng impormasyon, ang mekanismo ng pagsesenyas sa bilihan ng paggawa na isinasagawa ng pamahalaan ay maaaring magkulang sa pagsasara ng agwat sa impormasyon. Ang kakulangang ito ay nagiging lantad kapag lumalabas na ang ganap na impormasyon ay nangyayari lamang sa aktuwal na kapaligiran ng trabaho. Sa aktuwal na trabaho, …
Strategies To Overcome Barriers To A More Effective Leadership Style,
2015
Walden University
Strategies To Overcome Barriers To A More Effective Leadership Style, David Barnwell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Disengaged employees and leaders lacking the skills to engage their employees account for an estimated $300 billion annual loss through lowered productivity. This study focused on a leader's understanding of employee engagement as a means of increasing productivity. Utilizing the theory of leadership styles and expectancy theory for the conceptual framework, this descriptive study explored strategies small business leaders have used to develop effective leadership styles to improve workplace engagement. Interviews with a purposive sample of 20 highest-ranking executives at small businesses with between 50 and 250 employees in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States were analyzed using the …
Industry Career Guide: Mining,
2015
De La Salle University, Manila
Industry Career Guide: Mining, Roberto Raymundo
Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)
The mining industry in the Philippines plays a very significant role in the pursuit of industrial development because of the sector’s ability to provide mineral resources that serve as raw materials for manufacturing, construction, the utilities as well as the transportation and communications sector. It is also a major contributor of foreign currency through the exports of mineral ore and other processed mineral products and provides employment to communities in far flung areas where the only source of economic activity is mining operations. The extraction of copper, gold, silver, nickel, coal, gas, oil, stone and gravel as well as finding …
Relationship Between Leadership, Organizational Commitment, And Intent To Stay Among Junior Executives,
2015
Walden University
Relationship Between Leadership, Organizational Commitment, And Intent To Stay Among Junior Executives, Lorraine Elizabeth Anderson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Executive-level attrition rates from retiring baby boomers may result in a shortage of qualified junior executives to replace the retirees. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the efficacy of leadership style and organizational commitment in predicting intent to stay among junior executives. The Multifaceted Leadership Questionnaire, Three-Component Model (TCM) Employee Commitment Survey, and Intent to Stay Scale were administered to 147 junior executives employed in the southern region of the United States. Motivation theory served as the theoretical foundation in this study. The results of the bivariate regression were significant, F(1, 105) = 27.82, p < .001, R2 = .21, suggesting that leadership style significantly predicted intent to stay. The results of the multiple linear regression were significant, F(2, 104) = 19.42, p < .001, R2 = .27, suggesting that the model as a whole was able to significantly predict intent to stay. Affective commitment, B = 0.64, p < .001, was the only significant contributor to the model. The implications for positive social change include the potential to provide senior management with a better understanding of factors that relate to junior executive retention. The potential exists to provide senior executives with the necessary tools to increase retention. The social change implications include the potential for senior management to create a more desirable workplace, higher job satisfaction, and overall organization environment, making it more desirable to stay with the organization.
At The Intersection Of Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, The Migration Trust Network And Labor,
2015
University of Texas at El Paso
At The Intersection Of Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, The Migration Trust Network And Labor, Mario Javier Chavez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This study unpacks the intersection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Migration Trust Network and Labor. I use 9 in-depth qualitative interviews to address how such policies are affecting the labor acquisition and labor outcomes of DACA recipients. The Migrant trust network remained important for DACA recipients, although in a more indirect and macro-level way than described in Flores-Yeffal (2013). In particular, DACA recipients relied on the collective efficacy embedded within the community to facilitate their job search. Additional, migrant trust networks function differently according to the DACA recipients' level of education, but to fully benefit from the advantages …
Young Workers Left Behind: Hiring And The Great Recession,
2015
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Young Workers Left Behind: Hiring And The Great Recession, Eliza C. Forsythe
Employment Research Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Market Structure-Driven Discrimination And The Earnings Of Subordinate Managers: An Analysis By Union Density,
2014
Marshall University
Market Structure-Driven Discrimination And The Earnings Of Subordinate Managers: An Analysis By Union Density, Richard U. Agesa, Jacqueline Agesa
Economics Faculty Research
Recent work examines the market structure/racial earnings relationship for union and nonunion workers and finds that standardized union earnings protect black workers from market structure–driven earnings discrimination. This study examines the market structure/racial earnings relationship for low and mid-level managers in high- and low-union density industries. Our findings indicate that there is less market structure–driven discrimination of managers in highly unionized industries. We suggest that there is a spillover effect of reduced market structure–driven discrimination of managers in highly unionized industries that stems from standardized, more racially equitable wages of union workers.
Survey Of Lincoln Area Businesses About Skill And Training Requirements,
2014
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Survey Of Lincoln Area Businesses About Skill And Training Requirements, Eric Thompson
Bureau of Business Research Publications
his report discusses the results from the Make it Work for Lincoln survey of employers conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bureau of Business Research (UNL-BBR). The survey of employers in the Lincoln Metropolitan Area was conducted under contract with the Nebraska Department of Labor and with the participation of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development and ATD-Lincoln. The report examines the types of occupations Lincoln area employers are searching for and hiring, and the types of difficulties employers face when hiring. The survey also asks about the types of training which employers provide. Business responding to the survey reported …
Male Marriage Wage Premium And Marriage Market Competition,
2014
Clemson University
Male Marriage Wage Premium And Marriage Market Competition, Da Deng
All Theses
Three main hypotheses are proposed to explain the male marriage premium. They are marriage selection hypothesis, male-female labor specialization hypothesis and simply discrimination. This paper tries to test if marriage selection hypothesis explains the male marriage premium. The effect of marriage selection, which means males with higher productivity have higher possibility to be chosen into marriage, should be positively correlated to the marriage market competition level in the area and thus in area with higher marriage market competition, a higher density of high productivity males should be observed among married males. On the other hand, the labor specialization is a …
Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers In China’S Chemical Industry: A Spatial Hausman-Taylor Approach,
2014
ETH Zurich
Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers In China’S Chemical Industry: A Spatial Hausman-Taylor Approach, Peter H. Egger, Badi H. Baltagi, Michaela Kesina
Center for Policy Research
This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry. We use a rich panel data-set of 12,552 firms observed over the period 2004-2006 and model output by the firm as a function of skilled and unskilled labor, capital, materials, and total factor productivity, which is broadly defined. The latter is a composite of observable factors such as export market participation, foreign as well as public ownership, the extent of accumulated intangible assets, and unobservable total factor productivity. Despite the richness of our data-set, it suffers from the lack of time …
Predicting Employment Intention Of Ssa Beneficiaries: A Theory-Based Approach,
2014
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Predicting Employment Intention Of Ssa Beneficiaries: A Theory-Based Approach, James Mather Ii
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Employment has become an integral aspect of American society. Each year, millions of Americans engage in job search as a result of economic conditions, involuntary job loss, completion of their education, or the desire to pursue a new career opportunity. However, the employment reality for persons with disabilities remains stark. In 2012 the employment rate of working-age people with disabilities was 32.7 percent, compared to 73.6 percent for those without disabilities. Given the long-standing employment gap between persons with disabilities and those without disabilities, this exploratory research utilizes the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict determinates of Social Security …
A Study On Employee Turnover In Shanghai’S Fine Dining Restaurants,
2014
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A Study On Employee Turnover In Shanghai’S Fine Dining Restaurants, Yang Liu
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
No abstract provided.
