International Journal of Manpower: Volume 37 Issue 3

Do Bangladeshi migrants favourably self-select and sort across destinations?

Mrittika Shamsuddin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether migrants from Bangladesh choose the destination that offers them the highest earnings and whether the relative stock of the…

Social interactions in job satisfaction

Semih Tumen, Tugba Zeydanli

The purpose of this paper is to test empirically whether there exist spillover externalities in job satisfaction, i.e., to test whether individual-level job satisfaction is…

Overeducation and job satisfaction: the role of job demands and control

Dieter Verhaest, Elsy Verhofstadt

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate how job demands and control contribute to the relationship between overeducation and job satisfaction.

A microsimulation model to measure the impact of the economic crisis on household income

Tindara Addabbo, Rosa María García-Fernández, Carmen María Llorca-Rodríguez, Anna Maccagnan

The current economic crisis has significantly increased unemployment, showing higher persistence than expected. However, since microdata from household surveys are issued with…

Determinants of job-hopping: an empirical study in Belgium

Kelly Steenackers, Marie-Anne Guerry

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of job-hopping. More specifically, the authors investigate the effect of age, gender, educational level, organizational…

(Endogenous) occupational choices and job satisfaction among recent Spanish PhD recipients

Antonio Di Paolo

The purpose of this paper is to analyse differences in overall job satisfaction and specific job domain satisfaction among PhDs employed in different sectors four years after…

The incidence and wage effects of overeducation using the vertical and horizontal mismatch in skills: Evidence from Switzerland

Marco Pecoraro

The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved concept of educational mismatch that combines a statistical measure of over- and undereducation with the worker’s…

Entrepreneurial skills and wage employment

Aleksander Kucel, Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi

Promotion of entrepreneurial skills is often considered as an adequate policy to enhance job creation and economic growth. However, neither the definition of entrepreneurial…