Die Transformation des Controllings hin zu einer Business Partner Organisation erfreut sich wachsender Beliebtheit. In der Literatur erscheinen immer häufiger Publikationen, die den Wandel von einem klassischen Finanzleiter zu einem Business Partner beschreiben. Auch Berater propagieren die...

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that it is widely used to request both genders and is especially prevalent in jobs with low skill...

Routine-biased technological change (RBTC), whereby routine-task jobs are replaced by machines and overseas labor, shifts demand towards high- and low-skill jobs, resulting in job polarization of the U.S. labor market. We test whether recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish...

This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained...

How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job titles explain more than 90% of the wage variance. Job...

A new profession: introduction -- New profession -- New role in organizations -- The regulation : new data protection regime -- Role : role, obligations, and position -- Independence -- Relationship with board -- Relationship with director responsible for data protection -- Relationship with IT...