We study whether older workers are costly to firms. Our estimation equations are derived from a variant of the decomposition methods frequently used for measuring micro-level sources of industry productivity growth. By using comprehensive linked employer-employee data from the Finnish business...

In his study, Jan Posthumus uses the grounded theory method to explore the implementation of marketing instruments such as segmentation and targeting in the recruitment of high potentials in the pharmaceutical industry. The implementation of these instruments can best be understood as the result...

Dirk Lippold erläutert in diesem Essential die Struktur und den Handlungsrahmen einer zielgerichteten Konzeption für das Personalmarketing. Neben der Prozessorientierung zeigt die Personalmarketing-Gleichung unter dem Aspekt der Wertorientierung für jedes Aktionsfeld im Personalbereich auch...

In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....