International Journal of Manpower: Volume 39 Issue 6

Designing payroll levies for firm training

Gregory John Lee, Alexander Davison

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and recommend formal guidelines for the initial design of country-level or sectoral payroll levy systems that are intended to…

The effect of soft skills on French post-secondary graduates’ earnings

Ines Albandea, Jean-François Giret

The purpose of this paper is to construct soft-skill indicators and measure their effects on graduates’ earnings using survey data from a sample of master’s degree graduates in…

Is job satisfaction of high-level managers and self-employed more pro-cyclical than normal employees?

Nuria Sánchez-Sánchez, Ahn Namkee

The recent economic crisis in Spain is felt most severely in the labour market. The purpose of this paper is to examine job satisfaction among the occupied workers according to…

Public provision of employment support services to youth jobseekers: Effects on informality and wages in transition economies

Marjan Petreski

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if public provision of employment support services to youth leads to reduced informality and increased wages in transition economies.

Leader humility and constructive voice behavior in China: a dual process model

Jie Li, Qiaozhuan Liang, Zhenzhen Zhang, Xiao Wang

The purpose of this paper is to find how leader humility affects employees’ constructive voice behavior toward supervisor (speaking up) and coworkers (speaking out) from an…

How do Latin American migrants in the USA stand on schooling premium? What does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?

Daniel Alonso-Soto, Hugo Nopo

Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world’s population. In their absence, some proxy…