This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

Using simple game-theoretical models, this paper studies the role of pre-determined rules for HRM policies. We consider a model in which HRM decisions affect employees' self-images and thereby their motivation. We show that in the absence of written rules, managers are too reluctant (1) to...

In the past two decades the OECD has regularly voiced concern about the labor market exclusion of people with disabilities and about the cost of disability insurance programs. This paper examines whether the fundamental disability insurance reforms that were implemented in the Netherlands have...

Die Konjunktur- und Wachstumsanalyse sowie die geldpolitischen Empfehlungen stützen sich unter anderem auf die Schätzung des Produktionspotenzials und der Produktionslücke. Welche Schätzverfahren werden genutzt? Wo liegen die Vor- und Nachteile der einzelnen Methoden?