Avoiding labor shortages for skilled employees is one of the major challenges for highly competitive firms acting in tight labor markets. The ability to avoid labor shortages on the company level, for example measured by the share of vacant jobs, is distributed very unevenly and cannot in...

Reversing the original signaling model, this study explains how employers signal the non-observable quality of their workplace and thereby reduce labor shortages. Based on a company data set of 204 German firms, the authors find, as predicted by their theory, that the existence of a works...

Rund 80 % aller Erwerbstätigen haben familiäre Anforderungen zu erfüllen. Untersuchungen zur familienfreundlichen Personalführung aus den 90er Jahren deuteten jedoch darauf hin, dass es vor allem große Unternehmen sind, die Arbeitsplätze familienfreundlich gestalten. Die Überprüfung der...