Summary Building on a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson framework with factor price rigidities, this paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between trade, technical progress, and the labor market in West Germany for the period from 1970 until 1990. The analysis builds on relative...

Zusammenfassung Der Wettkampf auf dem touristischen Markt wird immer härter, sodass Mitarbeiter und besonders deren soft skills zum entscheidenden Faktor für die Gästezufriedenheit werden. Was verlangt dieser Anspruch von den Mitarbeitern, wie gehen diese mit den Anforderungen um und was...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht das Bild der Deutschen vom Gardasee in der Phase der Durchsetzung des Massentourismus in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Gardasee war eine der ersten Auslandsdestinationen und ein wichtiges Scharnier zwischen Bildungs- und Badeurlaub, Alpen-...

Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...

Abstract Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pensions, which reward long tenure. New evidence also points to an increase in job-to-job movements by workers, and we document gains in relative wages of job-to-job movers over a...

Purpose Using administrative data from the Spanish Social Security Administration, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the nature and stability of job matches starting during the economic boom in 2005 and during the recession in 2009. Design/methodology/approach The authors compare the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a model of voluntary employee turnover based on the theory of met expectations and self-perceived efficacy of the employee, using data from a field survey conducted in a call center. Design/methodology/approach The paper formulates a model of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of budget participation conflict (BPC) on job performance and the mediating effect of job satisfaction and job tenure on this relationship in a South Korean setting. BPC is defined as the difference between a manager’s actual...

Abstract Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland wurde bisher in weitaus weniger sichtbarem Maße von der Wirtschaftskrise getroffen als vielfach erwartet. Dies lag an der umfänglichen Nutzung interner numerischer Flexibilitätsinstrumente. Doch diese Strategie - die mit der demografischen Entwicklung...