Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) and agency work. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a theoretical model for the time interdependence of GDP, agency work and regular employment and tested model predictions...

Investigates the effects on quits of the current level of wages and the change in wages in order to test the proposition that the change in wages has a negative impact on quits, even controlling for the current level of wages. Finds that the percentage deviation in a worker′s wage change from...

Using three cross‐sectional data sets, the determinants of occupational upgrading over time for mobile workers in the United States are analysed. The model controls for the self‐selection of mobile workers over the course of the business cycle. The results indicate a trend towards greater...

Purpose Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether this increase in flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany over the business cycle. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses rich...

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine cycles and common cycles in the real estate markets of the UK, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia using a combination of time domain and frequency domain methods. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies the patterns of cyclical movement...

Purpose – Because of globalisation and monetary integration the macroeconomic conditions for industrial countries have become more and more equal. This paper aims to discover whether the synchronisation of business cycles also affected the co‐movement of house prices in OECD countries for...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the feasibility of the proposed Caribbean Monetary Union (CMU) by examining the synchronization of business cycles within CARICOM. According to the literature on optimum currencies, the synchronization of business cycles is a key requirement for the...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the cyclical pattern of social expenditure during 1980-2012 for a set of Asian countries. The extant literature available so far has captured the cyclicality of fiscal policy only for member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the alignment between the information‐processing needs and capabilities during interorganizational relationships through the lenses of both the product and the business relationships life cycle concepts, and the types of information exchanged....