International Journal of Manpower: Volume 32 Issue 4

Multiple language usage and earnings in Western Europe

Donald R. Williams

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the return to multiple language usage in the workplace.

HRM and the use of personnel services: an empirical analysis of German firms

Dorothea Alewell, Sven Hauff, Katrin Weiland, Kirsten Thommes

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how characteristics of the HR department and HR work, which relate to resource availability and resource needs, influence HR outsourcing…

Gender and potential wage in Europe: a stochastic frontier approach

Ma Ángeles Díaz, Rosario Sánchez

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence concerning wage differentials and the existence of gender pay discrimination in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United…

Human capital obsolescence: some evidence for Spain

Inés P. Murillo

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the link between human capital depreciation and the educational level of Spanish salaried workers.

What can monopsony explain of the gender wage differential in Italy?

Giovanni Sulis

This paper seeks to study gender wage differentials in Italy using first‐order predictions of monopsony‐search models. It compares empirical predictions of these models against…

Special issue on the changing economic environment: implications for human resource management