This article was developed from the premise that prior work experience provides students with a competitive advantage in the job market since this experience is looked upon favorably by recruiters of college graduates for entry level positions. The article focuses on the characteristics of prior...

This paper provides statistical evidence of the effects of overtime hours on worker productivity using aggregate panel data for 18 manufacturing industries within the US economy. An economic production function model is specified and estimated using data for the years 1956‐1991 provided by the...

Productivity gains powered by technological innovation have fueled expansion of the US economy during the 1990s. US economic prosperity has led to labor shortages, which are pushing organizations to engage in creative recruitment and retention practices and to employ workers from...

Family‐supportive employment benefits have become increasingly popular in recent years as an employer response to the increasing labor force participation of women, and the consequent need to balance work and family life. Economic theory predicts that these types of fringe benefits could at...

The past 40 years have been increasingly spent applying the entire range of the sciences worldwide to finding solutions to society′s problems, both technological and economic. It is argued that the result is a two‐tier workforce – the first relatively secure and independent by virtue of...

The effect of the relative supply of Hispanics on the relative earnings of Blacks in US labour markets is examined. The data source for the empirical estimates is the March 1988 Current Population Survey . The results support one of the key features of the Becker model of discrimination, amely,...

Uses qualitative response models of occupational choice to investigate differences in the occupational structures of minority workers relative to white men. Compares the accuracy of multinomial logit and multiple discriminant analyses in predicting occupational distributions. Further,...