Purpose – The purspose of this study is to examine the interplay between job resources (job control and support for creativity from coworkers and supervisors), age and creativity at work. Job control and support for creativity are assumed to benefit idea creativity and to moderate the...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the relationship between age and adaptation to changes in the workplace (perceived demand‐ability fit, task performance before and after change). It also seeks to explore two mediators of the potential age‐adaptation relationships: adaptive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between extending and reducing job crafting behavior, cognitive crafting and task performance. Design/methodology/approach – Hierarchical regression analyses of data from 131 employee-supervisor pairs were conducted to...

Purpose: Increased investments in employee further training have resulted in a growing interest in ensuring and improving the quality of these measures. However, little is known about the operational decision to initiate an evaluation of further training. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is...

Job mobility offers opportunities for workers to obtain wage increases, but returns to job changes differ considerably. We argue that parts of this inequality result from a trade-off between occupational and regional mobility. Both mobility types offer alternative strategies to improve one's...

Der Beitrag untersucht Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen, welche im Rahmen von Arbeitsgelegenheiten mit Mehraufwandsentschädigung, sogenannten Ein-Euro-Jobs, von Betriebs- und Verwaltungsstätten durchgeführt werden können. Da von einem positiven Einfluss von Bildungsmaßnahmen auf die...

The aim of this paper is to analyze why people consider other determinants than performance as important for the evaluation of wage fairness. This question arose from the empirical observation that a considerable proportion of respondents of the Swiss labor market survey reported that one's...

Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics, such as wages, job quality, and distance from the current place of residence, and the impact of these characteristics on the willingness of employed and unemployed individuals...

Mit dem Abschluss der allgemeinbildenden Schule werden wichtige Weichen für das künftige Erwerbsleben gestellt. Die Absolventinnen und Absolventen haben die Möglichkeit, eine berufliche Ausbildung in einem Betrieb oder an einer beruflichen Schule zu beginnen, eine weiterführenden Schule zu...