One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century was the rise of the internal labour market. Its origins can be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the large service companies such as banks and the railway companies. By studying the internal labour...

This paper investigates the effects of detailed job characteristics on job satisfaction, job search and quits using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) in a fixed effects framework.Using a factor analysis, seventeen job characteristics are reduced to seven factors that describe...

Der vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit arbeits- und berufsbezogenen Identitäten von Pflegepersonal in Deutschland, England, Estland und Frankreich. Die vorgestellten Ergebnisse sind eingebettet in das von der EU im 5. Forschungsrahmenprogrammgeförderten Forschungsprojektes FAME...

In this paper, job stability is analyzed for Switzerland in the years 1991 to 2001using data from the first 11 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (SLFS). Job stability ismeasured with one-year job separations and with on-the-job search behavior. For bothmeasures, the SLFS has interesting...