Using the personnel records of a large British financial sector employer we investigate how workers respond to remuneration differences and "luck" in the promotion system. The results confirm that workers respond to larger remuneration spreads by working harder. Increased certainty in the...

Match-level National Hockey League (NHL) data are used to identify factors likely to trigger the departure of a team's coach, and to measure the short-term impact on subsequent match results. There is a statistically significant link between individual match results and the job departure hazard...

Unemployment and labour market adjustment have featured prominently in the problems of transitional economies. However, the position of young people and their transitions from school to work in these new market economies has been virtually ignored. This paper examines a new large longitudinal...

In New Zealand, people unable to work due to an illness may be eligible for a means-tested benefit whereas injured people are eligible for a wide range of support including earnings-related compensation through the no-fault Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC). The effect of this difference...

The skill mismatch between the pool of long‐term unemployed and job vacancies in the Hull travel to work area is focused on, with data provided by a survey, the Training Agency and the National On‐line Manpower Information Service (NOMIS). A brief account of the industrial and employment...