An unprecedented number of hotel company mergers took place between 2004 and 2007. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were abnormal stock returns or volume activity in the periods surrounding the merger announcement date in the trading of 19 public hotel companies which...

Most Americans are dissatisfied with US immigration policies. This dissatisfaction stems from several factors, including the presence of over 11 million unauthorized foreigners and the fact that many US immigrants who want their spouses and children to join them face long waits. There is also a...

Although organic farm activities seem to demand year-round employees, seasonal workers dominate the organic labor market. We use the elasticity of complementarity to assess input substitutability and predict adjustments. Farm size and farm workers are complementary inputs. Incentives that...

Seasonal migration is an ever more important phenomenon worldwide, but has received little attention in empirical research. This paper investigates the choice of seasonal versus longer-term migration on a household level. We use data from Moldova, a country that is witnessing a massive...

Im Mai 2011 stellte Deutschland als einer der letzten EU-Staaten die Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit für Bürger der acht neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten her. Nach Aufhebung der Arbeitserlaubnispflicht wurde ein zunehmender Wettbewerb zwischen verschiedenen Branchen um Saisonarbeitskräfte aus diesen...

A few years ago it was typical to give one’s subsidiaries a free rein and send managers overseas from headquarters only. But today a great deal depends on overcoming this one-way street and in looking for and employing the best-suited managers, regardless of their origins. What contribution...

Die Studie präsentiert die Ergebnisse der 10. HR-Expertenbefragung mit der Zeitschrift Personalwirtschaft über ausgewählte Teilaspekte des Internationalen Personalmanagements. Themenschwerpunkte sind u.a. die Strategien zur personalpolitischen Steuerung von Auslandsstandorten,...

The concept of internationalization can be defined in many ways. According to a typical definition, this is a process through which the international presence of a company increases, while a local company extends its activities to foreign markets, and establishes new units in other countries...