International Journal of Manpower: Volume 27 Issue 5

Cross‐national differences in job quality among low‐skilled young workers in Europe

Andries de Grip, Maarten H.J. Wolbers

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the extent to which the quality of the jobs of low‐skilled young workers is affected by the structure of education and training systems in…

Job‐search assistance using the internet: experiences from a Swedish randomised experiment

Pathric Hägglund

The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent the evaluation design in this study manages to avoid common difficulties in experimental evaluation, and to assess the…

The market reaction to layoff announcements: a union‐nonunion comparison

Steven E. Abraham

The purpose of this paper is to compare the market reaction to layoff announcements of union and nonunion employees.

ICT and older workers: no unwrinkled relationship

Jaap de Koning, Arie Gelderblom

The purpose of this research is to find out to what extent older workers make use of ICT and to what extent this influences their job performance.

Constructing factors related to worker retention

Ing‐Chung Huang, Hao‐Chieh Lin, Chih‐Hsun Chuang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of individual‐based, firm‐based, and market factors on job retention, basing its hypotheses on human capital theory and…