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...

Trucking companies play a critical role in the U.S. economy but face many challenges. The trucking industry’s greatest challenge may be the persistent driver turnover problem. Trucking companies regularly report turnover rates exceeding 100%. Each driver costs between $2200-$21,000 to replace...

Despite the heightened attention granted by the coronavirus crisis, low-skilled essential labor remains largely invisible. A particularly under-researched and hard-to-access group of employees are Amazon delivery workers, whose workload and health risks increased significantly during national...

Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...

The article analyzes the process of digitalization in terms of its impact on the personnel policy of enterprises, including those from the transport sector. The contradictions and difficulties faced by the managers of these companies when building the employee management process in the context...

We consider large, permanent shocks to individual occupations whose arrival date is uncertain. We are motivated by the advent of self-driving trucks, which will dramatically reduce demand for truck drivers. Using a bare-bones overlapping generations model, we examine an occupation facing...

Automation of vehicles and in the workplace is transforming the transport industry. This report investigates the impacts of automation on the workforce in urban transport. It explores ways to help the labour market transition towards automated technologies without social disruptions. The report...

Women remain underrepresented in most transport-related industries, with only 17% female employees on average across a sample of 46 countries. Both attracting and retaining them remains a challenge for governments and the private sector. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the...

Einige Berufe werden für das Funktionieren unserer Gesellschaft insbesondere in der Corona-Krise als hochrelevant erachtet, was der Begriff "systemrelevant" zum Ausdruck bringen soll. Die Ergebnisse der LohnSpiegel-Daten zeigen, dass die Gehälter in den ausgewählten systemrelevanten Berufen...

Women play an essential role in the transport workforce worldwide, working in formal and informal jobs in public transport, road freight and logistics, rail, maritime and aviation sectors, in ports and in active travel. Women, Work and Transport is an international collection that brings...

Pursuing effective and efficient logistics qualification requires an ex ante understanding and identification of future qualification topics. Specific methods like addressing business practice experts e.g. with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) allow for a strategic ranking of future priority...

The US trucking industry trade press often portrays the US labor market for truck drivers as not working, citing persistent driver shortages and high levels of firm‐level turnover, and predicting significant resulting constraints on the supply of motor freight services. We investigate the...

Die Mobilitätsbereiche des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes stehen durch Entwicklungen in der Elektromobilität und Digitalisierung vor einem tiefgreifenden Wandel, der die zukünftige Mobilität mit elektrischem, vernetztem und autonomem Fahren bestimmen wird. Um der Globalisierung der Wirtschaft und...

Uber, the ride-sharing company launched in 2010, has grown at an exponential rate. This paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of the labor market for Uber's driver-partners, based on both survey and administrative data. Drivers who partner with Uber appear to be attracted to the...

Uber, the ride-sharing company launched in 2010, has grown at an exponential rate. This paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of the labor market for Uber's driver-partners, based on both survey and administrative data. Drivers who partner with Uber appear to be attracted to the...

Women remain underrepresented in most transport-related industries, with only 17% female employees on average across a sample of 46 countries. Both attracting and retaining them remains a challenge for governments and the private sector. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the...

The package king -- Uprising in New York -- The rise of the "Quiet Giant" -- UPSurge at the tightest ship -- Air war: taking on FedEx -- Democracy comes to the Teamsters -- A war on every front -- The campaign to destroy OSHA -- Last, best, and final offer? -- Part-time America won't work -- The...

Batching orders and routing order pickers is a commonly studied problem in many picker-to-parts warehouses. The impact of individual differences in picking skills on performance has received little attention. In this paper, we show that taking into account differences in the skills of individual...

In den letzten Jahren hat die Logistik einen erheblichen Bedeutungsanstieg erfahren. Dieser Trend wird nicht nur in den Unternehmen, sondern auch an den Hochschulen deutlich. Die Vielzahl an Studiengängen im Bereich Logistik spiegelt den erhöhten Bedarf an qualifizierten Logistikern wider....

'Empowering the New Mobility Workforce' enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape. Transportation employers will need to hire 4.6 million...