International Journal of Manpower: Volume 41 Issue 1

Employment protection and gender gap: Evidence from a reform of the Italian labor market regulation system

Patrizia Ordine, Giuseppe Rose, Gessica Vella

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of more stringent Employment Protection Legislation on employment outflows and wages of women compared to those of men.

The integration of young workers into the labour market in France

Stephen Bazen, Khalid Maman Waziri

Using a representative survey of young persons having left full-time education in France in 1998 and interviewed in 2001 and 2005, the purpose of this paper is to examine the…

Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment

Xavier Bartoll, Raul Ramos

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the association between the type of contract (temporary vs permanent) and the quality of work and its different dimensions before and after…

Do men and women experience work engagement and job satisfaction to the same extent in collectivistic, patriarchal societies?

Piyali Ghosh, I.M. Jawahar, Alka Rai

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how cognitive and emotional job demands interact with job resources to influence work engagement, and whether work engagement mediates…

Immigrants in the EU5 labour markets: what happened during the economic crisis?

Claudio Quintano, Paolo Mazzocchi, Antonella Rocca

The purpose of this paper is to understand: whether the changes that have occurred in migrants’ conditions over time are smaller than the differences in their conditions existing…

Impacts of educational mismatches on job satisfaction: The case of university graduates in Cambodia

Vichet Sam

Education-job mismatches, especially overeducation or vertical mismatch, are generally found to lower the worker’s job satisfaction, which may generate the counter-productive…

Social capital and career growth

Dae-seok Kang, Jeff Gold, Jeongeun Kim, Ilsoo Kim

The purpose of this paper is to examine the instrumental use of social capital regarding career growth within an organization, focusing on the mediating role of perceived…