International Journal of Manpower: Volume 38 Issue 5

Comparing the gender gap in gross and base wages

Maria J. Perez-Villadoniga, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez

The purpose of this paper is to examine the gender wage gap not only in gross wages, but also focussing on a specific salary component, the base wage, which is determined by…

Exploring nurtured company resilience through human capital and human resource development: Findings from Spanish manufacturing companies

Juan Manuel Menéndez Blanco, José-Luis Montes-Botella

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the importance and contribution of human capital, combined with human resources and research and development (R&D) measures, to nurturing…

Gender inequalities in labour market outcomes: Evidence for Greek regions before and throughout the crisis

Thomas Georgiadis, George Christopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the investigation of gender inequalities in the labour market at the regional level in Greece throughout the years preceding and following…

The mediating role of organizational embeddedness on the relationship between quality of work life and turnover: Perspectives from healthcare professionals

Decha Dechawatanapaisal

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating effect of organizational embeddedness in the relationship between quality of work life (QWL) and turnover under a…

Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital

Annie Tubadji, Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp

An interest in social transmission as a source of welfare and income inequality in a society has re-emerged recently with new vigour in leading economic research (see Piketty, 2014…

Effect of information quality of employment website on attitude toward the website: A moderated mediation study

Chetna Priyadarshini, S. Sreejesh, M.R. Anusree

The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate an empirical model examining the job seekers’ perception about information quality of corporate employment websites and its…

Do high school graduates benefit from intensive vocational training?

Luca Mo Costabella

Decades of impact evaluation of vocational training have produced very heterogeneous findings. If heterogeneity can be ascribed to the diversity in contents and target population…

Decomposing the structure of wages into firm and worker effects: Some insights from a high unemployment economy

Yolanda F. Rebollo-Sanz

The purpose of this paper is to show that for some key topics on labour economics such as the effect of seniority and job mobility in wages, it is important to explicitly consider…