This special issue of the International Journal of Manpower examines the potentials and challenges of Internet data or ""Big Data"" for research in the social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. Internet data are increasingly representing a large part of everyday life. The...

Affirmative Action and Employment -- AI and robotics innovation: a sectoral and geographic mapping using patent data -- Attorneys as Professional Human Resources: When do Plaintiffs Prefer Contingent Fees to Hourly Fees? -- Bayesian Econometrics Methods -- Behavioral Aspects of Communication in...

While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left behind, this is the first study to highlight the importance of sibling interactions in such a context. Using panel data from the RUMiC Survey, we find that sibling influence on...

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic selfidentification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the receiving countries. This would also serve best the...