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Are there differences in the perceived advantages and disadvantages of teleworking? The identification of distinct classes of teleworkers International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Vicente Peñarroja
Purpose Previous research has focused on the outcomes of telework, investigating the advantages and disadvantages of teleworking for employees. However, these investigations do not examine whether there are differences between teleworkers when evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of teleworking. The aim of this study is to identify of distinct classes of teleworkers based on the advantages and
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Fostering a safe workplace: the transformative impact of responsible leadership and employee-oriented HRM International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Huma Bashir, Mumtaz Ali Memon, Nuttawuth Muenjohn
Purpose Promoting a safe workplace for everyone is a key tenet of Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG-8), which focuses on promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all. Therefore, this study explores how responsible leadership ensures a psychologically safe workplace for everyone, leveraging employee-oriented human resource management. Specifically, drawing
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Social contacts, neighborhoods and individual unemployment risk International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ambra Poggi
Purpose The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate whether social contacts can mediate the way in which current unemployment impacts future unemployment. Design/methodology/approach We use 2006–2017 data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and a dynamic random-effects model to describe the evolution of individual unemployment status over time. Findings
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Is labour force participation independent of unemployment? A panel analysis for high-income countries International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Walter Paternesi Meloni
Purpose We test the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis (UIH) for a set of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Design/methodology/approach We empirically investigate the nexus between unemployment and labour force participation employing structural vector autoregressive methods for panel data. Findings We find that shocks in unemployment produce long-lasting
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Having your career path decided too early: the effects of high school track on education-occupation mismatch International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Alina Botezat, Cristian Incaltarau, Sabina Ana Diac, Alexandra Claudia Grosu
Purpose This paper aims to extend the scope of previous studies on education-occupation mismatch to explicitly focus on the role high school track choices have on the risk of being mismatched in the labor market. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the most exhaustive available database regarding the early-career paths of university graduates in Romania. Using a novel matching technique, entropy
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Does access to assistive technologies enhance labour force participation amongst the disabled population? Evidence from India International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Subramania Raju Rajasulochana, Mohd Imran Khan
Purpose Persons with disabilities (PwD) are generally less likely to be employed than the general population. The paper aims to investigate whether access to assistive technologies (AT) impacts labour force participation in the disabled population. Design/methodology/approach The study utilises the nationally representative survey on disability in India conducted in 2018 through multi-stage sampling
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Commuting while Black: compensating differentials and Black–White wage gap in Canada International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Maryam Dilmaghani
Purpose Using the Canadian Census of 2016, the present study examines the Black and White gap in compensating differentials for their commute to work. Design/methodology/approach The data are from the Canadian Census of 2016. The standard Mincerian wage regression, augmented by commute-related variables and their confounders, is estimated by OLS. The estimations use sample weights and heteroscedasticity
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Which employers pay a higher college wage premium? International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Kenta Ikeuchi, Kyoji Fukao, Cristiano Perugini
Purpose The authors' work aims to identify the employer-specific drivers of the college (or university) wage gap, which has been identified as one of the major determinants of the dynamics of overall wage and income inequality in the past decades. The authors focus on three employer-level features that can be associated with asymmetries in the employment relation orientation adopted for college and
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Exporting is a team sport: the link between management training and performance in SMEs International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Bochra Idris, George Saridakis, Yannis Georgellis, Yanqing Lai, Stewart Johnstone
Purpose This paper examines how soft skills training for owner-managers affects the financial performance of exporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Furthermore, the authors examine the differential influence of specific owner-manager skills, such as “team working skills”, “technical skills” and “leadership skills”, on performance. Design/methodology/approach The paper utilises the Longitudinal
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Unraveling unemployment hysteresis in Nordic countries: a multifaceted analysis of age, gender and frequency differentials International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Veli Yılancı, Mustafa Kırca, Şeri̇f Canbay, Muhlis Selman Sağlam
Purpose This study aims to test the unemployment hysteresis hypothesis for Nordic countries by considering age and gender differentials at various frequencies. Design/methodology/approach First, the authors test the linearity of the unemployment series and apply appropriate unit root tests based on the linearity test results. The authors use these tests for both original and wavelet-decomposed unemployment
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Gender bias in university student mobility: a cohort analysis in Italy International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Isabella Sulis, Barbara Barbieri, Luisa Salaris, Gabriella Melis, Mariano Porcu
Purpose This paper aims to assess gender bias in Italian university student mobility controlling for the field of study. It uses data from the Italian National Student Archive (Anagrafe Nazionale degli Studenti – ANS) for the cohort of freshmen enrolled in the 2017 academic year. The macro-regional comparison unfolds across the following areas: North and Centre, Southern Italy and main Islands (Sicily
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Navigating repatriation: factors influencing turnover intentions of self-initiated repatriates in emerging economies International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Nga Thi Thuy Ho, Hung Trong Hoang, Pi-Shen Seet, Janice Jones
Purpose The repatriation process often involves challenging and unexpected readjustment issues, leading to high turnover amongst repatriates. However, research has focussed on the re-entry decisions and experiences of company-assigned (CA) repatriates, whilst studies on self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) that repatriate back to their home countries (i.e. self-initiated repatriates (SIRs)) are limited
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From zero to Hero: effect of gender diversity on corporate social performance in Brazil International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Alan Bandeira Pinheiro, Nágela Bianca do Prado, Ana Julia Batistella, Cintia De Melo de Albuquerque Ribeiro, Sady Mazzioni
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of board gender diversity on corporate social performance (CSP) in Brazilian companies. Design/methodology/approach This research collected available information on the CSP, financial performance and governance of Brazilian companies for five years (2016–2020). The dependent variable of this study is CSP (workforce, human rights, community
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On working from home in European countries International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Vahagn Jerbashian, Montserrat Vilalta-Bufí
Purpose The authors analyzed the evolution of working from home (WFH) within industries in 12 European countries in the period 2008–2017 and studied its relationship with information and communication technologies (ICT). Design/methodology/approach The authors used data from the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) to document the trends and levels of WFH within industries in 12 European countries
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Analysis of gender wage gap and the Nigerian labour market: a new empirical evidence International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Anthony Orji, Emmanuel O. Nwosu
Purpose This study investigated the gender wage gap in Nigeria by analysing two waves of household surveys (in 2003–2004 and 2018–2019) in order to understand the dynamics or polarisation of the labour market in Nigeria in terms of the gender wage gap over time. Design/methodology/approach The study applied an extension of Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition that relies on the re-centred influence function
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HRA adoption via organizational analytics maturity: examining the role of institutional theory, resource-based view and diffusion of innovation International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Despoina Ioakeimidou, Dimitrios Chatzoudes, Symeon Symeonidis, Prodromos Chatzoglou
Purpose This study aims to develop and test an original conceptual framework that examines the role of various factors borrowed from three theories (i.e. Institutional Theory, Resource-Based View and Diffusion of Innovation) in adopting Human Resource Analytics (HRA). Design/methodology/approach A new conceptual framework (research model) is developed based on previous research and coherent theoretical
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Labour shortages and employer preferences in retaining and recruiting older workers International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Aart-Jan Riekhoff, Noora Järnefelt, Mikko Laaksonen, Jyri Liukko
Purpose This article investigates whether employers are more likely to employ older workers when faced with a shortage of qualified labour. Furthermore, it analyses whether in such cases age stereotypes moderate employers' preferences towards four employment options: (1) supporting workers to continue until the retirement age, (2) encouraging workers to continue beyond the retirement age, (3) recruiting
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Job satisfaction in Europe: a gender analysis International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nunzia Nappo, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera
Purpose The main aim of this study was to examine gender differences in job satisfaction in Europe. Design/methodology/approach For the empirical analysis, data from the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey were used. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition with a principal component analysis (PCA) aggregated variable, after unconditional quantile regressions in a multiple imputation background, was implemented
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Future of work from everywhere: a systematic review International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Urmila Jagadeeswari Itam, Uma Warrier
Purpose Teleworking, working from home and flexible work have gained popularity over the last few years. A shift in policies and practices in the workplace is required owing to the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating current trends in work-from-everywhere (WFE) research. This article presents a systematic literature review of WFE research from 1990 to early 2023 to understand the transformation of the field
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Mobile work, individual aspirations and job satisfaction in Europe International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Ylenia Curzi, Barbara Pistoresi, Gaetano Francesco Coppeta
Purpose This article responds to the call for more research on mobile work by exploring how the aspirations of these workers relate to job satisfaction through adaptation to the job characteristics they experience. Design/methodology/approach Based on aspiration theory and the literature on mobile work, the paper examines how mobile workers form aspirations and how this is related to their perception
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Green human resource management practices as a strategic choice for enhancing employees' environmental outcomes: an affective events theory perspective International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Rimsha Iqbal, Khurram Shahzad, Richa Chaudhary
Purpose Drawing on affective events theory (AET), this study aims to examine how green human resource management (GHRM) practices influence employees' environmental commitment (EEC) and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) through the mediating role of harmonious environmental passion (HEP). Design/methodology/approach Time-lagged and multisource data were collected from employee–coworker
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The gender gap in voluntary turnover International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Benjamin Artz
Purpose The study's objective is to measure the gender gap in quit behavior, consider whether it has changed over time and determine whether parenthood affects the gender gap in quit decisions. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative study design leverages two separate USA data sources to analyze the gender gap in quits over time. Two separate cohorts confirm the study's results in Logit, ordinary
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Effects of educational mismatch on wages across industry and occupations: sectoral comparison International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Elena Lasso-Dela-Vega, José Luis Sánchez-Ollero, Alejandro García-Pozo
Purpose This study conducts a comparative analysis of the impact of educational mismatch on Spanish wages. This paper aims to focus on the industrial, construction and service sectors at three levels of disaggregation: sector, occupation and gender. Design/methodology/approach The over-education, required education and under-education (ORU model), was applied to data from the 2018 Spanish Wages Structure
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Senior citizens' intrinsic and extrinsic work motivation International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Dominique Anxo, Thomas Ericson
Purpose It is important to understand why some workers prolong their working life even though they are entitled to statutory pension benefits. This paper aims to investigate whether senior workers are motivated by external factors such as pay and social expectations (extrinsic motivation) or are primarily motivated by internal factors such as job satisfaction (intrinsic motivation). This is a central
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The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Mauro Caselli, Andrea Fracasso, Arianna Marcolin, Sergio Scicchitano
Purpose This work analyses how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors moderate such relationship. Design/methodology/approach The study makes use of the 2018 wave of the Participation, Labour, Unemployment Survey (PLUS) from Inapp. The richness of the survey and the representativeness of the underlying sample (including
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Skill demand and labour market concentration: evidence from Italian vacancies International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Emilio Colombo, Alberto Marcato
Purpose The authors provide a novel interpretation of the relationship between skill demand and labour market concentration based on the training rationale. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a novel data set on Italian online job vacancies during 2013–2018 to analyse the relationship between labour market concentration and employers' skill demand. The authors construct measures of market
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The returns to returning to school International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Benjamin Charles Adams
Purpose This work examines the returns to education for workers who pursue additional education after time out of the labor force. It compares those who remain in the labor force during additional education with those who drop out of the labor force during additional education. It compares two cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Design/methodology/approach This work utilizes
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The role of ethical leadership and psychological capital in influencing employee attitudes: a moderated-mediation model International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Saeed Loghman, Michael Quinn, Sarah Dawkins, Jenn Scott
Purpose Research has consistently demonstrated that psychological capital (PsyCap) is an important predictor of various employee outcomes. Despite this, there is a paucity of knowledge regarding antecedents of PsyCap and the boundary conditions that influence PsyCap relationships. This study aimed to address these gaps by investigating how ethical leadership (EL) influences employee PsyCap, and in
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Research on the suitability of telework in the context of COVID-19 International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Zhen Han, Yuheng Zhao, Mengjie Chen
Purpose Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has made telecommuting widely valued, but different individuals have different degrees of acceptance of telecommuting. This article aims to identify suitable individuals for telework and to clarify which types of workers are suitable for what level of telework, set scientific, reasonable hybrid work ratios and processes and measure their suitability. Des
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Part time jobs, fragmentation and work instability: light on the gender gap in Emilia-Romagna International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Maria Giovanna Bosco, Elisa Valeriani
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate if, given personal, supply-related features, and labour demand-related variables, there is a difference in the share of women finding more stable jobs with respect to men, in an eight-year time span. Design/methodology/approach Fragmentation leads to a lower probability of transitioning into more certain, full-time work positions. The authors analyse
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The differential effects of human resource management on organizational innovation: a meta-analytic examination International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Mengsang Chen, Mengdi Wu, Xiaohui Wang, Haibo Wang
Purpose This meta-analytical review aims to clarify the relationships between three bundles of human resource management (HRM) practices—competency-enhancing, motivation-enhancing and opportunity-enhancing—and organizational innovation by addressing two questions: (a) Which types of HRM bundles are most strongly related to different forms of innovation (i.e. process and product innovation)? And (b)
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Psychosocial influence of blended working: the reciprocity of blended working and organizational optimism International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Kedarnath Thakur, Talina Mishra, Lalatendu Kesari Jena, Suchitra Pal
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of blended working (BW) on individual payoffs like psychological ownership (PO), affective organizational commitment (AOC) and digital stress (DS). Additionally, the study also examines the moderating role of organizational optimism (OO) on the relationships stated to determine the boundary condition of the relationship between BW and the
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Employee perceptions of disruption knowledge: the influence on career attitudes and behaviors International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 David Brougham, Jarrod Haar
Purpose The world of work is changing rapidly as a result of technology, with more workers being impacted by automation, the gig economy and temporary work contracts. This study focusses on how employees perceive their disruption knowledge and how this perception impacts their career planning, career satisfaction and training behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The authors use data from 1,516 employees
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Working from home and job satisfaction: evidence from Russia International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Larisa Smirnykh
Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of working from home and its duration on job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach The analysis was conducted on a representative panel data set from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) for 2016–2021 using endogenous regression models. The impact of working from home on job satisfaction before and during
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Material matters: concrete support and adaptability to work-related change during COVID-19 International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Brian Cooper, Tracey Shea, Julie W. Cox, Naomi Stead, Jonathan Robberts
Purpose This study aims to investigate which resources and sources of support are related to employee adaptability to work-related change during the COVID-19 pandemic, with implications for human resource management (HRM). Design/methodology/approach The authors analysed a survey of 1,619 employees working in architectural practice and allied fields in Australia in 2020. Findings Drawing on conservation
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On-the-job training, wages and digitalisation: evidence from European firms International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Francesco Venturini
Purpose The authors illustrate that there are significant differences in the wage performance across companies in relation to the digital content of their production and training activities. Design/methodology/approach Using company-level data from three waves of the Continuing Vocational Training Survey (2005, 2010 and 2015), this paper provides an overview on European firms implementing training
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Work from home and workplace ostracism, beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: moderating effect of perceived organizational support International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Said Al Riyami, Mohammad Rezaur Razzak, Adil S. Al-Busaidi
Purpose This study investigates whether prolonged durations of work from home (WFH) leads to workplace ostracism (WO), and whether such relationship is moderated by perceived organizational support (POS). The context of this research is based on the post-COVID-19 pandemic period, when most organizations have either recalled their employees back to their physical workplaces, or in other cases employees
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The effects of work-life balance on the well-being of older workers: same-same or same-different? International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Jarrod Haar, Candice Harris, Barbara Myers
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the study of work-life balance (WLB) by exploring the influence of WLB amongst older workers. Theoretically, this study suggests that the psychological benefits of age on relationships between WLB and well-being might be stronger for those “younger” older workers than those working toward or beyond retirement age. This study tests a moderated mediation
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Exploring job preferences of business and economics students from Colombia, Ecuador and Spain: a discrete choice experiment International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Gabriela Morejón Cabrera, Petr Mariel
Purpose This study analyses the future job characteristics that are preferred by economics and business administration students in three specific regions of Spain, Colombia and Ecuador, and estimates their willingness to accept each. Design/methodology/approach A discrete choice experiment (DCE) is carried out in these three regions. The econometric approach is based on the Random Parameter Logit model
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Optimize your leadership pipeline: leveraging HR analytics for C-suite executive development International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Guorong Zhu, Lan Wang, Douglas T. Hall
Purpose This paper employs human resources (HR) analytics to investigate the pathways through which high-potential managers ascend to C-suite positions, and how different developmental paths influence turnover among executives. Design/methodology/approach By combining job analysis and competency assessment with sequence analysis, the authors utilize HR analytics to analyze the work experiences of 53
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Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Jorge de Andres-Sanchez, Angel Belzunegui-Eraso, Amaya Erro-Garcés
Purpose This paper aims to shed light on the perception of the consequences of implementing home teleworking (TW) for employers and employees amid the pandemic. By doing so, the research analyzes the factors that explain employers' and employees' perceptions of home TW and the symmetry of their impact on its acceptance and rejection. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is done over the survey
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Overeducation and childcare time International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Aleksander Kucel, Montserrat Vilalta-Bufí
Purpose Research shows that parental employment and education status affect the amount of parental childcare time, which is a fundamental determinant of children's outcomes. In this paper, the authors study whether being overeducated – working in a job that requires less education than the level of education acquired – is related to the time parents devote to their children. Design/methodology/approach
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Measuring female discrimination through language: a novel indicator and its effect on production efficiency in Italy International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Massimiliano Agovino, Michele Bevilacqua, Massimiliano Cerciello
Purpose While the economic literature mostly tackled discrimination looking at labour costs, this work focuses on its relation to labour productivity, arguing that discrimination may worsen the performance of female employees. In this view, it represents a source of allocative inefficiency, which contributes to reducing output. Design/methodology/approach Female discrimination is both a social and
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Innovation as a firm-level factor of the gender wage gap International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Jaan Masso, Priit Vahter
Purpose This paper investigates the relationship of both technological (product and process) and non-technological (organizational and marketing) innovation with the gender wage gap at firms. Design/methodology/approach Using employer–employee level data from Estonia, the authors estimate Mincerian wage equations, in order to show how innovation at the firm level is associated with the gender wage
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Wage dispersion and firm performance: evidence from Kazakhstan International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Aigerim Yergabulova, Dinara Alpysbayeva, Venkat Subramanian
Purpose The aim of the paper is to explore within-firm vertical pay inequality and its relation to firm size and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach Using firm-level microdata for Kazakhstan, the authors measure within-firm pay inequality as the wage differential between the top- and the bottom-level job occupations. The authors carry out their analysis based on panel regression models. Findings
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Analysing gender differences in academic performance and labour market outcomes of engineering graduates: evidence from India International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Itishree Choudhury, Seema Singh
Purpose Participation of women in engineering education is considerably low in India, although it is increasing in recent years. Also, engineering is primarily treated as a male-dominated profession, and the authors do not find many women in this sector. What factors contribute to this significant gender differences in engineering education and labour market in India? In this context, this study aims
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Care, labour force participation and health: the case of Italy International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Chiara Mussida, Raffaella Patimo
Purpose This paper investigates the relationship between health and labour market participation considering the potential role played by the presence of children and elderly persons (with/without disabilities) in Italian households. Design/methodology/approach The authors use longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions and full-information maximum likelihood
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The impact of highly skilled emigrants on the origin country's innovation performance: the case of Greece International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Lois Labrianidis, Theodosis Sykas, Evi Sachini, Nikolaos Karampekios
Purpose The study aims to investigate the impact of highly skilled emigration from Greece on the innovation performance of the Greek economy. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on a new, census-scale, database that includes all the Greek Ph.D. holders and on statistical information pooled from various secondary sources. Findings The mass emigration of highly educated Greek scientists that
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The role of international experience and cultural intelligence in the intention to work abroad (the case of geographically and politically isolated countries) International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Marina Iskhakova, Sofia Kosheleva
Purpose This study contributes to the conversation on international career development and its antecedents. Drawing on experiential learning theory and social cognitive theory, the current comparative study investigates the extent to which students' pre-existing international experience (IE) drives their cultural intelligence (CQ) development and influences global career intention for human resource
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The salience of remote leadership: implications for follower self-control and work-life balance International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Megan M. Walsh, Erica L. Carleton, Julie Ziemer, Mikaila Ortynsky
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether remote work moderates the mediated relationship between leadership behavior (transformational leadership and leader incivility), followers' self-control, and work-life balance. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a three-wave, time lagged study of 338 followers. Drawing on social information processing theory, a moderated mediation
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Employers' perception of downsides to flexible staffing arrangements: exploring the role of strategic motives International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Lin Rouvroye, Hendrik P. van Dalen, Kène Henkens, Joop J. Schippers
Purpose Flexible staffing arrangements have become a permanent feature of employment in many industrial societies. This article examines how employers perceive the consequences of using flexible staffing arrangements. It presents and assesses theoretically informed hypotheses on organisational situations in which negative consequences are more likely to be perceived. Design/methodology/approach This
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Higher education by fields and foreign direct investments: insights from OECD countries International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Müzeyyen Merve Şeri̇foğlu, Pelin Öge Güney
Purpose This paper investigates the two-way relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and higher education across 36 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries for 1998–2019 periods. To demonstrate this relationship, the authors take into account the total number of graduates as well as the number of graduates from different fields. Accordingly, the authors
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Using theory of mind to understand the impact of Covid-19 fear on healthcare workers’ withdrawal intentions International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Garima Saini, Sanket Sunand Dash, Anurag Tiwari
Purpose Healthcare workers’ (HCWs’) job-related high exposure to Covid-19 virus arouses fear of Covid-19 among them. Based on the Theory of Mind (ToM), the study predicts that fears will lead to negative psychological (psychological distress) and behavioral (withdrawal intentions) outcomes. ToM is also used to identify social intelligence as a means to counter fear of Covid-19 on heightened psychological
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Employee innovative job performance and firms' financial performance: a multilevel insight with big data analytics and entrepreneurial orientation International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Faisal Mahmood, Maria Saleem, Antonio Ariza-Montes, Heesup Han
Purpose The present research developed and investigated a multilevel theoretical framework by underpinning a resource-based view (RBV) that uncovers how and when academic researchers and organizational practitioners can strategically attain a competitive edge and increase their financial performance. Design/methodology/approach To consider the dynamic and ever-challenging business environment, this
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The gender wage gap in Egypt: public versus private sector International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Emanuela Ghignoni, Francesco Pastore
Purpose After the decision of the Egyptian government to adhere to the Equal Pay International Coalition in 2020, a great deal needs to be done to guarantee ‘equal pay for equal work’. The authors provide a comprehensive, in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the gender wage gap in Egypt, as well as its evolution over the last 20 years, disaggregated by public and private sector. The authors also provide
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Inclusive leadership and work-from-home engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a moderated mediation model International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Thi Vinh Tran Nguyen, Seng-Su Tsang
Purpose The current study proposes a moderated mediation model to predict work-from-home engagement during an emergency such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic based on the integration of well-known concepts, including inclusive leadership, organizational support and perceived risk theory. Design/methodology/approach An online questionnaire on the Google Forms platform was designed
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Daily work engagement is a process through which daily micro-events at work influence life satisfaction International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Ana Junça Silva, António Caetano, Rita Rueff
Purpose Drawing upon the conservation of resources theory, the authors expected that daily micro-events, daily hassles and uplifts at work influenced well-being via work engagement at the daily level. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted two diary studies. In study 1, 181 workers answered a daily questionnaire for four working days (N = 181 × 4 = 724). In study 2, 51 workers filled in
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Discovering knowledge map and evolutionary path of HRM and ER: using the STM combined with Word2vec International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Dejian Yu, Bo Xiang
Purpose The purpose of this study is to comprehensively review the human resource management (HRM) and employment relations (ERs) field and explore the knowledge map, knowledge evolution trends and paths and paradigm shifts within this field. Design/methodology/approach The Structural Topic Model in combination with Word2vec is proposed and applied in this work. First, this paper detects and interprets
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Employee association in Japanese family and non-family SMEs International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Tsukasa Matsuura, Tomohiko Noda
Purpose This study aims to investigate the nature of employee associations (EAs) and whether the EAs function as a collective voice similar to enterprise unions in Japanese small- and medium-sized enterprises by clarifying the differences in the determinants and effects between EAs and unions. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze 2,440 Japanese small- and medium-sized firms for determinants
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Substitutability between older and younger workers and its implications for Japan International Journal of Manpower (IF 3.295) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Quoc Hung Nguyen
Purpose This study investigates the impact of the increasing proportion of older workers in the workforce by establishing a theoretical framework and estimating the degree of substitutability between them and their younger counterparts. Design/methodology/approach The first step is to establish a theoretical framework that combines older and younger workers with imperfect substitutability in the production