International Journal of Manpower: Volume 43 Issue 5

Female directors’ monitoring and earnings quality: the moderating effect of political connections and family ownership

Chwee Ming Tee, Jeyapalan Kasipillai

This study aims to examine whether the monitoring effectiveness of female directors in corporate boards is moderated by political connections and family ownership.

Impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment: evidence from OIC countries

Sajid Ali, Zulkornain Yusop, Shivee Ranjanee Kaliappan, Lee Chin, Muhammad Saeed Meo

This study examines the impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment in various income groups of Organization of…

Unemployment and its scarring effect on wages in Germany: evidence from linked employer-employee data

Oskar Jost

Assess and compare scarring effects of unemployment in Germany to other countries and to consider firm heterogeneity.

The wage effects of overeducation across overall wage distribution on university graduates: incidence, heterogeneity and comparison

Hongye Sun, Giseung Kim

This study aims to investigate the extent to which overeducation imposes wage effects on university graduates, taking into account the individual heterogeneity due to skills and…

Antecedent and employee well-being outcomes of perceived benefits schemes: a two-wave study

Qijie Xiao, Fang Lee Cooke, Felix Mavondo, Greg J. Bamber

The purpose of the research is to examine the antecedent and employee well-being outcomes of employees' perceptions of benefits schemes.

Home, work or both? The role of paradox mindset in a remote work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ronit Nadiv

Why did some individuals have relatively little trouble balancing work and home demands during the COVID-19 lockdown, while others felt overwhelmed? Although ample studies have…

Management innovation: the influence of institutional pressures and the impact on competitive advantage

Salha Alshumrani, Kevin Baird, Rahat Munir

Drawing on DiMaggio and Powell's (1983) perspective of institutional theory, this study examines the influence of institutional pressures on the adoption of management innovation…

How and when high-involvement work practices influence employee innovative behavior

Zhining Wang, Tao Cui, Shaohan Cai, Shuang Ren

Based on social information processing (SIP) theory, this study explores the cross-level effect of high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) on employee innovative behavior by…

Community norms and corporate philanthropy: the moderating role of women on board of directors

Xin Wang, Zhe Zhang, Ming Jia

This study examines how community norms, such as religious atmosphere and economic pressures, affect corporate philanthropic giving. Grounded in upper echelon theory, the authors…

COVID-19 impact on job losses in Portugal: who are the hardest-hit?

Ana Sofia Lopes, Pedro Carreira

The COVID-19 pandemic caused job losses to rise dramatically. Herein, the purpose of the article is to identify which personal and job characteristics make individuals more…