Während der Corona-Pandemie ist für etliche Berufsgruppen eine enorme Diskrepanz zwischen “Systemrelevanz” und gesellschaftlicher Anerkennung beziehungsweise Wertschätzung deutlich geworden. Dies verweist auf die Frage nach den gesellschaftlichen Bewertungskriterien für Arbeit und...

The shift from an industrial economy to a knowledge and service economy over the last four decades has ignited a debate about what skills are now the most critical. The European Commission has placed skills development at the heart of its economic policies, as it believes that skill mismatches...

The comparable worth principle - a call for a general readjustment of wages according to a measure of the worth of an occupation - gained a policy momentum in the United States in the early 1980s. A Supreme Court decision, multiple bills, congressional hearings as well as an arsenal of...

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables us to account for firm heterogeneity and obtain a more refined picture of the impact of skills. The methodology...

The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests...

Anticoagulation clinics (ACCs) are specialty clinics that manage patients with blood clotting problems. Since labor costs usually account for a substantial portion of a healthcare organization’s budget, optimizing the number and types of staff required was often the focus, especially for ACCs,...

Cover -- Titel -- Impressum -- Einleitung -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Teil 1: Fokus und Ansätze -- 1 Human Resources -- 1.1 Menschen und ihre Arbeit -- 1.2 Menschen- und Arbeitsbilder -- 1.3 Die besondere Stellung des Menschen im Unternehmen -- 2 Human Resource Management (HRM) in der Praxis --...

Dieser kompakte Band führt in die zentralen Aufgabenfelder und Theorien des Human Resource Management ein. Neben den grundlegenden theoretischen Ansätzen des Personalmanagements behandelt "HRM Basics" die Schwerpunktthemen Motivation und Arbeitszufriedenheit, Arbeitsgestaltung und -bewertung,...

Integratives Modell zur Arbeitsfähigkeit in der digitalisierten Industrie -- Instrumentarium zur Situationsanalyse.-Lernangebote zur Förderung der Kompetenz für die digitalisierte Industrie -- Arbeitsgestalterisches Methodenset für den Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz -- Assistenzsystem zur...

Welchen Einfluss haben nicht-marktliche Tätigkeiten wie Schwarzarbeit, Haushaltsproduktion und Ehrenamt auf den materiellen Wohlstand und die personelle Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland? Die Autorin widmet sich dieser zentralen sozialpolitischen Fragestellung, indem sie sowohl den zeitlichen...

Introduction / Adam Biela) -- Theoretical base and methodology for job analysis -- Multidimensional analysis and the assumed theories in the European questionnaire for job analysis (EQJA) -- Towards synthesis of multidimensional job analysis -- Conclusions / Adam Biela) -- Biographical notes

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables us to account for firm heterogeneity and obtain a more refined picture of the impact of skills. The methodology...

This paper exploits the richness and large sample size of the Gallup/Healthways US daily poll to illustrate significant differences in the dynamics of two key measures of subjective well-being: emotions and life evaluations. We find that there is no day-of-week effect for life evaluations,...

This paper exploits the richness and large sample size of the Gallup/Healthways US daily poll to illustrate significant differences in the dynamics of two key measures of subjective well-being: emotions and life evaluations. We find that there is no day-of-week effect for life evaluations,...