International Journal of Manpower: Volume 35 Issue 8

Age segregation and hiring of older employees: low mobility revisited

Pekka Ilmakunnas, Seija Ilmakunnas

– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of hiring and exit rates by age at the firm level and firm-level age segregation in hirings and separations in Finland.

Assessing education’s contribution to productivity using firm-level evidence

Lara Lebedinski, Vincent Vandenberghe

There is plenty of individual-level evidence, based on the estimation of Mincerian equations, showing that better-educated individuals earn more. This is usually interpreted as a…

The impact of training on productivity: evidence from a panel of Italian firms

Emilio Colombo, Luca Stanca

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of training activity on labor productivity in a panel of Italian firms.

Assistant and auxiliary nurses in crisis times: Earnings, employment, and income effects of female job loss in the Swedish public sector

Marcus Eliason

The purpose of this paper is to examine the earnings, employment and income effects of job displacement among female assistant and auxiliary nurses – two hard-hit female-dominated…

Bullying at school and labour market outcomes

Nick Drydakis

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes.

Vacancy chains and the business cycle. Stringing together job-to-job transitions in micro data

Carlo Gianelle, Giuseppe Tattara

The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamics of labour market flows over the business cycle through a vacancy chain model. It provides a direct computation of vacancy…

The interplay of the unemployment compensation system, fixed-term contracts and rehirings: The case of Spain

José María Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano

Using a Spanish administrative data set, the authors document the importance of recalls in labour market transitions. The authors focus on two issues: the interplay between the…

Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction

Aysit Tansel, Şaziye Gazîoğlu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey…