In vielen bisherigen Studien zu Arbeitsplatzpräferenzen wurden Beschäftigte direkt nach ihren Präferenzen befragt. Dabei ist nicht auszuschließen, dass sozial erwünschte Antworten gegeben werden. In diesem Projekt wird ein anderer Ansatz gewählt: Auf Basis von Daten des Sozioökonomischen...

Am Beispiel der deutschen chemischen Industrie, einer mittelständisch, aber international orientierten Branche untersuchen wir, in welchem Umfang bei der Abwicklung internationaler Aktivitäten auf Auslandsentsendungen zurückgegriffen wird. Wir zeigen, dass dies deutlich seltener geschieht,...

This paper focuses on the relationship between work role stressors and job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention among IT personnel. To collect data, we received the cooperation of the IT SME/Venture Business Association in Korea. IT firms provided the names and...

Contemporary career research assumes more flexible career patterns implying increased job mobility. However, there is growing doubt that the proclaimed change is as drastic as has been suggested. We provide empirical evidence on career expectations in Germany between 1999 and 2009, arguing that...

The occupational skill structure depends on the business cycle if employers respond to shortages of applicants during upturns by lowering their hiring standards. Devereux uses this implication to construct empirical tests for the notion of hiring standards adjustment (the so-called Reder...

Because rational individuals know that they cannot always get what they want, they are assumed to make appropriate adjustments. However, little is known about trade-off reasoning in labor market mobility decision making. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of job-specific...

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...

Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of e-recruitment on the recruitment process as a whole. The present study fills part of this gap by investigating the effect of e-recruitment on the design of the recruitment process. Three explorative case studies were carried out in three...

Industrial decline and restructuring in the transition economies presents a prime example of the relationship between changes in aggregate economic indicators and underlying microeconomic adjustments. This paper employs matched labor force survey data to focus on the magnitude and determinants...

In Deutschland hat die Flexibilität auf dem Arbeitsmarkt in den vergangenen zehn Jahren deutlich zugenommen. Nach Berechnungen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) stieg von 1992 bis 2002 die Zahl jener, die innerhalb eines Jahres eine Arbeitsstelle neu angetreten haben, um mehr als 30 % auf...