...Christian Grund; Niels Westergaard‐Nielsen Purpose Given the ongoing demographic change in European countries, this paper aims to explore empirically the link between age structures of employees in firms and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach Based on theoretical considerations...

...Ingwer Borg; Michael Braun; Miriam K. Baumgärtner Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the participants in an employee survey who do not answer one or more demographic items differ systematically from those who fill out all demographic items. Design/methodology...

...) demographic projections. The methodology combines the ONS projections with assumptions relating to the evolution of educational attainment in order to project the future distribution of human capital skills and consequently the future size of the gender wage gap. Findings The analysis suggests that gender...

...; programs to tackle the shifting demographics; pressure to effect downsizing and cope with mergers and acquisitions; and pressures to demonstrate its usefulness to the organisation. One area of great concern for organizations lies in obtaining and retaining employees with the unique skills and attributes...

...E. Anne Bardoel; Simon A. Moss; Kosmas Smyrnios; Phyllis Tharenou Are organizations responding to significant changes in Australian labour force demographics by providing more family‐friendly programs? This article explores whether or not variations across companies in the implementation of work...

... variable that best describes the commuting experience. As demographic characteristics have been hypothesized as affecting strain, data were collected on personal variables and mode of transportation. Presents results from subjects in the present study consisting of 200 employees of a service organization...

...Gerard P. Hodgkinson; Nigel Dale; Roy L. Payne Reviews the data on changing demographic trends and predictions about their implications for human resource management (HRM) practices in the 1990s. Reports the results of a survey of 176 senior managers/personnel specialists, which assessed...

... Demographics Housing Job mobility Labour market Local economy Pay differentials Relocation Unemployment Pay This article intends to outline how the interlinkages between spatially‐segmented housing and labour markets affect human migration and to summarize the methodology and findings of recent...

...Masudul Alam Choudhury; Joseph MacPhee Undertakes a critical study of population theory and demographic change in the history of economic thought and then presents an alternative theory of social change within which demographic change can be taken up. This latter kind of theoretical construct...

... Demographics Economy Employees Surveys Skills shortages The Extent and Intensity of Skill Shortages, 1990 Extent and Intensity of Skill Shortages, 1990 Derek L. Bosworth School of Management, UMIST, Manchester, UK 3 Introduction There is fairly compelling evidence that, at least up to the late 1980s, UK...

... that demographic variables have greater influence on the odds of individuals being in the various labourforce categories for the general US sample than for Mensans. Differences in labourforce patterns for Mensans versus the US sample are due more to differences in characteristics than to underlying behavioural...

...Lyn Martin Although the nursing profession is a large occupational group and a major part of the National Health Service, surprisingly little is known about the demand for and supply of nurses. Current demographic trends, however, have ensured that a traditional “easy in/easy out” model...