This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More precisely, it examines the interaction with: i) the skills of the workforce, using a more appropriate indicator than the standard distinction between white- and blue collar workers,...

This paper presents a case study of the food delivery platform, Deliveroo, in Belgium in 2016-2018. The case offers insights on the nature of platform work, the workers who perform it, the preferences of workers, the strategy of the platforms, and the role of local regulations. Interestingly,...

In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie sich die Qualität der sozialen Beziehung zwischen einem Mitarbeiter und seinem Vorgesetzten auf den Umgang mit Konflikten auswirkt. Zur Charakterisierung der Beziehungsqualität unterscheiden wir fünf Beziehungstypen: die...

Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...

The research on job satisfaction has a long history and is one of the most intensively studied subjects - not only in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The various studies can roughly be classified into situational, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether...

In Deutschland sind Migranten weit überdurchschnittlich von Arbeitslosigkeit betroffen. Wenn darüber nachgedacht wird, wie diese Gruppe von Arbeitslosen bei der Arbeitssuche unterstützt werden kann, ist es hilfreich, sich mit der Stellenfindung von Migranten detailliert zu beschäftigen....