A Community-Based System Dynamics Study of the Senior Community Service Employment Program

The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), the only federal workforce-training program that targets older adults, engages people aged 55 years and older with incomes at or below 125% of the federal poverty level with multiple barriers to employment. This study examined SCSEP’s role in participant financial, physical, and mental well-being. To do so, we held five sessions (four virtual, one telephone) over a combined nine hours in August and September 2020 using a form of participatory research called community-based system dynamics with 15 Massachusetts SCSEP participants and case managers. Through structured activities, respondents identified how program, policy, and organizational factors influence and are influenced by participant well-being (e.g., SCSEP participation results in less social isolation, decreased isolation subsequently increases desire to participate) as well as program and policy recommendations to strengthen the program (e.g., reconsider benchmarks of success). These findings highlight the benefits and potential of this long-running program.

Investment Pattern, Preferences and Financial Mangement Practices of Wesleyan University-Philippines Employees

This study determined the investment pattern, preferences, and practices of Wesleyan University-Philippines employees with the used of descriptive correlational methods of research, and the data were collected using a researcher-made survey questionnaire. Respondents of the study were the 305 employees chosen purposively. The result shows that most of the respondents belonged within the age range of 19 – 28 years old, married, a college graduate with 1 – 6 years in service, permanent, had a monthly income of 10000-21000 and had other sources of income from their husband/wife income. Likewise, most of the respondents had a saving for an emergency and unforeseen circumstances, had an investment and invested 1 – 5 percent of their income. Most of them had a saving account, intended to invest the money to more than five years in which the principal amount is secured, invested in the private sector, and expected to grow steadily. Similarly, this study found out that the respondents sometimes practice the five indicators of financial management practices used in the study. Moreover, profile variables were significantly correlated with financial management practices. Age, number of years in service, employment status, monthly income, and other sources of income were significantly associated with money management practices. Similarly, a number of years in service were correlated considerably with savings management practices. Finally, age, employment status, and other sources of income were significantly associated with investment management practices. Further, there is a significant difference in the respondents' assessment in all indicator of financial management practices.

Pengaruh Karakteristik Individu dan Faktor Ekstrinsik terhadap Kinerja Bidan

The performance of the midwife as part of the human resources owned by the hospital will affect the performance of the health service institution concerned as a whole. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of individual characteristics (including age, years of service, employment status, skills, and motivation) and extrinsic factors (including rewards, workload, supervision, and training) on the performance of midwives. This explanatory survey research used all of the midwives who served in the inpatient obstetrics room at Langsa Hospital, amounting to 47 people as respondents. Data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed by logistic regression method. The results showed that employment status, skills and motivation from individual characteristics as well as supervision and training from extrinsic factors had a significant effect on the performance of midwives. Furthermore, motivation was identified as the dominant variable influencing the performance of midwives.

Automation and sectoral reallocation

Empirical evidence in Dauth et al. (J Eur Econ Assoc, 2021) suggests that industrial robot adoption in Germany has led to a sectoral reallocation of employment from manufacturing to services, leaving total employment unaffected. We rationalize this evidence through the lens of a general equilibrium model with two sectors, matching frictions and endogenous participation. Automation induces firms to create fewer vacancies and job seekers to search less in the automatable sector (manufacturing). The service sector expands due to the sectoral complementarity in the production of the final good and a positive wealth effect for the household. Analysis across steady states shows that the reduction in manufacturing employment can be offset by the increase in service employment. The model can also replicate the magnitude of the decline in the ratio of manufacturing employment to service employment in Germany between 1994 and 2014.

Complying with Reasonable Accommodation Requirements for Persons with Visual Impairment in Uganda Public Service Employment? Assumptions and Gaps

Uganda has got legal and policy frameworks that guarantee the provision of reasonable accommodation in employment for persons with disabilities, persons with visual impairment inclusive. The available literature indicates that persons with visual impairment remain largely disadvantaged in public service employment despite the progressive disability legal and policy framework in the employment. The paper examines the Uganda public service employment compliance with provisions of reasonable accommodation for persons with visual impairment. This paper arises from a study on access to and inclusion of persons with visual impairment in public service employment in Uganda. The study adopted a qualitative research approach. Twenty-two [22] participants were interviewed and included persons with visual impairment in public service and their direct supervisors from four districts of Jinja, Kampala, Iganga, and Mbarara, officials from Public Service Commissions, National Council for Disability, and Uganda National Association of the Blind. Data was obtained using interviews and observation and analyzed using thematic analysis. The results show the gaps and assumptions in the provision of reasonable accommodation requirements for persons with visual impairment in employment and have effects in the provision of auxiliary and support services, modification of working environment & facilities, making information accessible, modification of job application procedures, restructuring work systems, provision of housing, among others.

MPA/MPP programmes and the future of work: Does MPA curriculum align with civil service requirements

In recent decades civil services worldwide have experienced exogenous forces that are transforming their work and workplace. In turn, these changes are altering the skills set associated with civil service employment. As professional degrees oriented towards careers in civil service these changes can have important ramifications on the curriculum. Focusing on member schools of the Canadian Association of Programmes in Public Administration (CAPPA) our research explores whether and how the postgraduate public administration and public policy programmes (MPA and MPP) curriculum has adapted to changes in the natural labour market for their graduates. Our threefold findings are that: A lack of alignment exists between the MPA/MPP currently taught and the requirements of civil services; a recognition by programme heads that some degree of curriculum alignment is indeed necessary; and that engagement between schools and civils services exists, but is typically informal and conducted through intermediary bodies. Our findings further highlight the necessity for civil services to engage with MPA and MPP programmes to ensure that future civil servants possess the skills relevant at a time of significant change in the nature of work.

Service employment assessment

The author assessed the employment of labor resources in the important activities for maintaining the standard of living, such as wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, hotel and restaurant business. The calculations were carried out on the basis of official statistical data. The author studied the dynamics and structure of employees in the formal and informal sectors of the economy, the gender and age structure, the level of education of employees, the place of main work, work experience, and the length of the working week. the results of the analysis of labor resources allow us to formulate qualitative requirements for the level of education of labor resources and for the system of vocational education in the region that provides training.