International Journal of Manpower: Volume 37 Issue 4

Recruiting abroad: an empirical analysis

Mario Bossler

In many European countries labor markets became more and more demand oriented. However, the average use of recruiting abroad is still low. From a firm perspective, recruiting…

Union pay premium in China: an individual-level analysis

Morley Gunderson, Byron Y Lee, Hui Wang

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the union-nonunion pay gap impact separately for wages and bonuses as well as total compensation to include both wages and bonuses in…

Portraying an employee performance management system based on multi-criteria decision analysis and visual techniques

Alessio Ishizaka, Vijay Edward Pereira

Performance appraisal is one of the most critical and indispensable human resource practices for organisations. However, it generates dissatisfaction among employees as it is…

Decomposing the relationship between wage and churning

Richard Duhautois, Fabrice Gilles, Héloïse Petit

Applied research shows higher wages are associated with lower mobility at the establishment level. A usual interpretation is that high pay decreases labour turnover. The purpose…

The effects of the motor vehicle industry on employment and research innovation in Australia

Abbas Valadkhani, Russell Smyth

The purpose of this paper is to examine the likely economy-wide impacts of the complete shutdown of the motor vehicle industry on output and employment in Australia using the…

Worker word of mouth on the internet: Influence on human resource image, job seekers and employees

Santiago Melián-González, Jacques Bulchand-Gidumal

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the consequences of an unexplored and real worker behavior on the internet (worker electronic word of mouth (weWOM)) for human resource…

Consumption, unemployment and the Great Recession: Does it matter who is unemployed and for how long?

Joaquín Alegre, Llorenç Pou

The purpose of this paper is to test whether households with members that experience job loss shocks are able to protect their previous level of consumption. The paper also tests…