International Journal of Manpower: Volume 27 Issue 2

Perceived income, promotion and incentive effects

Gil S. Epstein, Melanie E. Ward

This paper examines the disincentive effects of perceived underpayment on individuals' exerted effort, attempting to find out if payment above or below a worker's perceived…

Mergers and acquisitions as a human resource strategy: Evidence from US banking firms

Bou‐Wen Lin, Shih‐Chang Hung, Po‐Chien Li

This paper investigates how a firm's human resource capability can affect the deployment and effectiveness of corporate mergers and acquisitions strategy.

The effects of overeducation on wages in Italy: a bivariate selectivity approach

Andrea Cutillo, Giorgio Di Pietro

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of overeducation on wages in the Italian graduate labour market.

Is workers' mobility a source of R&D spillovers?: Evidence of effects of innovative activities on wages

Elisabetta Magnani

This study asks whether working in a R&D intensive industry affects a worker's wage profile. If R&D investment translates into transferable human capital or knowledge, workers'…

Is the learning organization a valid concept in the Taiwanese context?

Bella Ya‐Hui Lien, Richard Yu‐Yuan Hung, Baiyin Yang, Mingfei Li

This study aims to investigate the psychometric characteristics of a Chinese version of the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ^©).