International Journal of Manpower: Volume 27 Issue 3

Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Amelie Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove

This paper studies the entrepreneurial undertaking and economic success of immigrants and natives in Germany, namely the West Germans, the East Germans, the guestworkers, and…

The effect of downsizing on the financial performance and employee productivity of Korean firms

Gyu‐Chang Yu, Jong‐Sung Park

The paper's objective is to explore the effect of downsizing on both a firm's financial performance in terms of profitability and efficiency, and a firm's employee productivity.

The impact of individual values on human resource decision‐making by line managers

David McGuire, Thomas N. Garavan, Sudhir K. Saha, David O'Donnell

This paper explores this relationship between the individual values of managers and human resource (HR) decision‐making.

New estimates of the risk and duration of registered unemployment in urban Russia

Anton Nivorozhkin

This paper examines whether deregistration from the employment office decreases unemployment duration in urban Russia.

Do job disamenities raise wages or ruin job satisfaction?

Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of adverse working conditions in the determination of individual wages and job satisfaction in the Finnish labour market.