.... Findings – Internet data can successfully be applied to a very wide range of human resource issues including forecasting (e.g. of unemployment, consumption goods, tourism, festival winners and the like), nowcasting (obtaining relevant information much earlier than through traditional data collection...

...Professor Nikolaos Askitas and Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann; Concha Artola; Fernando Pinto; Pablo de Pedraza García Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve the forecast of tourism inflows into Spain by use of Google – indices on internet searches measuring the relative popularity...

...Roger Fox; Barry Comerford Purpose This paper seeks to examine the use of the cohort component method as a method of deriving replacement demand for manpower forecasting. Design/methodology/approach The paper explains the principal concepts of replacement demand and how replacement demand has...

...Simon P. Ellis This paper demonstrates the need to anticipate employers’ future skills requirements, and shows how London Skills Forecasting Unit is addressing this problem. The paper first suggests that employers require advice and labour market intelligence in order to determine their skill...

.... Increasingly workers are part of teams with widespread member diversity (Deery and Walsh, 1999). Human resource management Australia Forecasting Australia is a country the geographic size of the continental USA. Of its population of 18.9 million approximately 9.1 million are in the workforce...