This paper explores how firms' skills and organizational change affect the returns from investments in ICT. Our work contributes to the literature by testing the hypothesis of complementarity in a panel of 540 Italian manufacturing firms during 1995-2000. By drawing on different statistical...

The increasing overload of information that bothers people is affecting businesses on online job boards as well. Although there is no doubt about the benefits of those platforms, companies are threatened to get lost in the sheer mass of similar advertisements. Considering the background of the...

Vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt in Verbindung der sozial- und pensionsrechtlichen Veränderungen wurde im Auftrag des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich, Abteilung Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsinformation eine Analyse der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik für...

"Digitalisierung", "Internationalisierung", "Spezialisierung" und "Flexibilisierung" sind nur einige Schlagwörter, die die Arbeitswelt von heute prägen. Sie durchdringen zunehmend alle betrieblichen Leistungsprozesse und verändern die Anforderungen an die MitarbeiterInnen aller...

In November 2003 the Dutch HRM network held its third annual international conference at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. Its topic was 'Innovating HRM?', a multi facetted topic that can be elaborated in many ways, as the 10 different tracks of the conference testify. The...

Trotz der zunehmenden Bedeutung eines hohen Humankapitalbestands für die technologische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Volkswirtschaft liegen bisher kaum Daten zum Humanvermögen in Deutschland vor. Die wenigen vorhandenen Studien basieren zudem häufig nur auf den direkten Ausbildungskosten. Aber...

This paper explores the potentials of including the broad realm of human resource development into the proposed bilateral economic agreements between Japan and the Philippines. The authors greatly recognized that the extent and sustainability of a nation's economic development is largely...

Statistical cluster techniques are applied in the development of two new taxonomies of manufacturing industries. The first focuses on the distinction between exogenous, location dependent comparative cost advantages, such as the relative abundance of capital or labour, and endogenously created...