A series of three laboratory experiments examined effects of affirmative action (AA) employment policies, decision set (in terms of accepting or rejecting applicants), and selection ratio (ratio of applicants to available positions) on amount, duration, content, and sequence of information...

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: B, page: 2164.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: B, page: 3103.

The study had three objectives: (a) to determine the causes of turnover among particular career service employees in the Departments of Corrections (DC), Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV), Health and Rehabilitative Services (DHRS), and Agriculture and Consumer Services (DA & CS); (b) to...

This dissertation addresses the problem of informational and legal restrictions on employment screening processes such as educational requirements and standardized testing. For the past two decades, the legal system in the U.S. has struggled with this issue and has labeled certain information or...

The proportion of a unit of government's budget devoted to labor costs determines whether cost reductions at the metropolitan level are achieved through fragmentation or consolidation. Consolidating capital intense functions at higher levels of government is the optimal cost-reducing strategy....

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-07, Section: A, page: 2569.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2679.

Among the most significant changes to the agricultural sector in the twentieth century include a sharp decline in employment and the numbers of farms, a decline in the proportion of total value that accrues to agricultural producers, and an increase in farm level and regional specialization....

This research focuses on the current shortage of young workers as a result of the baby bust cohort now entering the labor force. Previous studies have shown that the young workers of the baby boom cohort experienced lower relative earnings and higher unemployment because of their large cohort...