International Journal of Manpower: Volume 36 Issue 2

Cross-national variations in the scale of informal employment: An exploratory analysis of 41 less developed economies

Colin C Williams

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically the competing explanations for the cross-national variations in the scale of informal employment which variously correlate…

Training older employees: what is effective?

Thomas Zwick

Employees older than 55 years of age have a much lower share in training than other employees. The purpose of this paper is to propose that one of the reasons for this phenomenon…

Identifying work value patterns: cross-national comparison and historical dynamics

Sven Hauff, Stefan Kirchner

The purpose of this paper is to identify and characterize different work value patterns empirically. Furthermore, it is analyzed how these patterns are distributed in different…

Promoting worker loyalty: an empirical analysis

Susan Linz, Linda K Good, Michael Busch

– The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess the link between worker loyalty and expected rewards, with special attention to reward desirability.

The effect of sexual activity on wages

Nick Drydakis

The purpose of this paper is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals’ characteristics, wages…

Unemployment and spell duration during the Great Recession in the EU

Carlos Gradín, Olga Cantó, Coral del Río

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different dynamic characteristics of unemployment in a selected group of European Union countries during the current Great Recession…

The relationship between labour social responsibility practices and reputation

María Dolores Odriozola, Antonio Martín, Ladislao Luna

– The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether labour social responsibility (LSR) practices influence on corporate reputation (CR) and on labour reputation (LR).