... Expatriates Data analysis Human resource management Psychological contracts The number of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the global environment is increasing. These corporations must manage overseas subsidiaries, which entail business-related management as well as the management of local...

... as follows: H2. There is a positive and significant association between leisure involvement and perceived freedom in leisure. Expatriates Human resource management Employee involvement Human resource strategies Burnout Data analysis Hours of work Employees behaviour Employee...

... centred on private markets in the USA. This paper is the first empirical work that employs private market data for Portugal. Insurance Data analysis Determinants Employees Compensation Employers In Portugal, employers are responsible for covering for the consequences of work accidents...

... empirical evidence and through a flexible modelling framework. The result that there exists genuine positive state dependence in married Australian women’s labour force participation suggests that policy intervention that increases married women’s labour supply would have a long-lasting effect. Data...

... benefits such as healthcare and housing expenses. Conditions of employment Data analysis Contingent workers Absenteeism Human resource management Construction industry As peripheral workers often receive little to no formal task or craft training (Maloney, 1997), management knowledge...

... is explained in Section 5. Section 6 discusses the salient results that were obtained. The main conclusions are commented on in Section 7. Llorenç Pou can be contacted at: llorens.pou@uib.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Europe Data analysis Recession Unemployment...

...) into a reduction of their share in firm N. Logically thus [δx _N /δx ₁]=−1: (Equation 3) Employment Data analysis Efficiency Productivity rate Concavity Labour diversity The popular press usually discusses workforce...

... Group Publishing Limited 2015 Data analysis Motivation (psychology) Temporary work Volition Contract preference Participants were 337 temporary agency workers. They were predominantly male (65 percent) and native-Italian speakers (87.8 percent), and 27.6 percent were 20-25...

...., 2010). The same low pay threshold applies to both male and female employees. Buddelmeyer et al. (2010) show that while different low pay thresholds result in different proportions of workers classified as on low pay, they have little impact on model estimates. Earnings Data analysis...

... test hypotheses about the determinants of immigration to the EU core countries. Professor Daniel Felsenstein can be contacted at: daniel.felsenstein@mail.huji.ac.il © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Data analysis Welfare Immigration Economic growth The European...

.... Originality/value – Few works have analysed previously the role of urbanisation on international migration flows. Dr Vicente Royuela can be contacted at: vroyuela@ub.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Europe Data analysis Eastern Europe Immigration In this section I...

... as the main findings of the field research, and finally, the paper ends with conclusions and practical implications. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Expatriates Data analysis Immigration Eastern Europe J240 O180 O470 R110 The cross-border mobility of academics...

... 2015 Europe Unemployment Recession Data analysis The current economic recession has had a tremendous impact on the economy of most developed countries. However, its consequences for the labor market are rather unequal depending on the country considered. While some countries...

.../value – The paper adds to the literature on the importance of unobserved characteristics in determining labour market outcomes. Dr Nick Drydakis can be contacted at: nick.drydakis@anglia.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Modelling Labour market Data analysis Pay...

... Publishing Limited 2015 Older workers Training Human resource management Data analysis Most papers on continuing training of older employees concentrate on their lower training incidence (Taylor and Urwin, 2001 ; Addio et al., 2010). Obviously, it is a problem in a greying...

... Employee attitudes Data analysis Employees behaviour Pay differentials Disadvantaged groups In the last decades, bullying has appeared to be increasingly worsening, causing problems for bullied individuals, their families and their educational environments (Giovazolias et al., 2010...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Company performance Data analysis Retirement Older workers Age groups The role of entry and exit of firms with regards to job creation and economic growth is undisputed (e.g. Caves, 1998 ; Dunne et al., 1988 ; Foster et al...

... focus on potentially employability‐enhancing “sideways transitions” to education/training measures. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Employment Unemployment Data analysis Comparative tests Europe Besides EPL, the country's unemployment rate is expected to influence...

... Limited 2009 Labour market Data analysis Germany Economic policy Many countries spend a huge amount of funding on active labour market policy (ALMP). In the case of Germany, the budget reached about 1.2 per cent of GDP in 2002. Thus, there is a large interest in empirical studies...

... of changes in a set of labour market characteristics like industry structure and bargaining institutions, performance‐related pay experienced a positive trend in Norway in the recent years. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Data analysis Compensation Employment contracts Within...