The field of talent management (TM) has grown over the last two decades, and much theoretical and methodological progress has been made in an effort to better conceptualize the field. Despite these efforts, the construction of knowledge within TM research has ignored power and gender dynamics....

Rapid changes in demographics, technology and globalization have considerable global implications for work and the worker. This new context is also disrupting talent management as known for the last two decades. Progressive companies in all sectors realize that their talent management practices...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which fin-tech freelancers are interested in further development of their own business and receive funding for launching and upscaling their start-up. Design/methodology/approach Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis...

Many job posts require one to display emotions specified by organisational standards. Such work is referred to as emotional labour (EL) and consists in producing particular emotional reactions in contacts with a customer as well as suppressing the actual emotional reactions that could be seen...

This paper proposes a new approach to estimate task prices per efficiency unit of skill in the Roy model. I show how the sorting of workers into tasks and their associated wage growth can be used to identify changes in task prices under relatively weak assumptions. The estimation exploits the...

Our research is devoted to the investigation of theoretical aspects of human capital formation through human potential migration redistribution and investment process. This topic was chosen because in the modern conditions human potential development becomes one of basic factors of the...

Die berufliche Geschlechtersegregation am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt hat sich im Zeitverlauf als ein relativ beständiges Muster erwiesen. In den letzten Jahren haben sich – mit wenigen Ausnahmen – nur geringe Veränderungen in der geschlechtsspezifischen Zusammensetzung einzelner Berufsgruppen...

Das deutsche Verarbeitende Gewerbe hat im internationalen Vergleich ein hohes Lohnstückkostenniveau. Im Durchschnitt waren die deutschen Lohnstückkosten im Jahr 2018 um 15 Prozent höher als in den 27 Vergleichsländern. Der Kostennachteil Deutschlands gegenüber dem Euroraum belief sich auf 9...

Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over 2 years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently overpredict their productivity. If workers are overconfident about their own productivity at the current firm relative to...

This paper develops a dynamic model of schooling and occupational choices that incorporates personality traits, as measured by the "big five" traits. The model is estimated using the HILDA dataset from Australia. Personality traits are found to play an important role in explaining education and...