International Journal of Manpower

1980 - 2025

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Volume 46, issue 10, 2025

The gender gap in the early progression of academic careers: evidence from Italy pp. 1-20

Vincenzo Alfano, Lorenzo Cicatiello, Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta and Mauro Pinto

Workforce dissimilarity and job changes pp. 21-41

Pekka Ilmakunnas

South Asian Diaspora in Italy: settlement patterns and locational factors pp. 42-59

Gabriele Morettini and Enzo Valentini

Exploring upstream affective influence: how followers can shape leader support pp. 60-76

Muhammad Salman Rashid, Jarrod Haar and Peter McGhee

Analysis of the effects of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on the labor market in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) pp. 77-102

Ismail Miss Yaya, Cheikh Tidiane Ndiaye, Simplice Asongu and Samba Diop

Italian NEETs in 2012–2021: job search channels and labour market reforms pp. 103-124

Giovanni De Luca, Antonella Rocca, Paolo Mazzocchi, Federica Pizzolante and Claudio Quintano

School-leaving certificates and vocational education and training – the role of firms as gatekeepers in Germany pp. 125-147

Anett Friedrich

Occupational skill mismatch in self-employment: prevalence and income implications pp. 148-168

Pankaj C. Patel

Volume 46, issue 3, 2024

Efficacy of growth-led unemployment reduction hypothesis in India using Okun’s law pp. 391-409

Akhilesh Kumar Sharma and Sushil Kumar Rai

Magnetic macro drivers of labor efficiency: a study of high and low trade open economies pp. 410-429

Shahida Suleman, Safia Bibi, Muhammad Azam, Hassanudin Mohd Thas Thaker and Calvin W.H. Cheong

Exploring the complex interplay of intellectual capital and environmental uncertainty in ambidextrous innovation: evidence from China pp. 430-445

Yongzhong Jiang, Ying Guo, Xixi He and Xueli Chen

Unemployment hysteresis by gender and youth in the EU: evidence from new factor PANIC unit root tests with breaks pp. 446-471

Rüya Ataklı Yavuz, Cüneyt Kılıç and Ahmet Tayfur Akcan

Examining the impact of co-workers’ sexism on citizenship behaviors and performance outcomes: the moderating role of leaders’ gender pp. 472-491

Lin Xiu, Yufei Ren, Feng Lv, Thomas Lange and Xin Liang

Understanding NEET status in Cameroon and Chad: determinants and gender disparities pp. 492-511

Christian Zamo Akono and Liliane Odette Medjo Obia

Idiosyncratic deal seeking for personal brand verification pp. 512-535

Swati Garg, Shuchi Sinha and Smriti Anand

How to sustain a competent and committed aging workforce: The age-differential effects of development human resource practices pp. 536-555

Lin-Yang Yue and Wei- De Huang

The influence mechanism of enterprise digitalization on employee taking charge pp. 556-572

Shengmin Liu and Pengfan Cheng

The experience of wellbeing practices in project-based organisations pp. 573-596

Maria Kapsali, Rea Prouska and Sara Hajikazemi

Volume 46, issue 2, 2024

Who came first, the egg or the chicken? What comes first, psychological contract breach or perceived job insecurity? pp. 197-217

Ana Junça Silva and Sergio López

Wage and fiscal policy re-examined. An assessment of employment and productivity using Italian regional data pp. 218-238

Matteo Deleidi, Davide Romaniello, Luigi Salvati and Francesca Tosi

Delayed retirement, elderly care and women labor supply pp. 239-251

Xiaoyi Li

On an ego trip: the relationship between supervisory responsibility and leader altruistic behavior pp. 252-266

Stephanie Funk

ICT, heterogeneous labor structure and productivity of producer service enterprises: evidence from China pp. 267-290

Jingxiang Song, Xiaoqian Liu, Javier Cifuentes-Faura and Jihong Duan

Promoting proactive extra-role service behaviors through empowering leadership: the role of mindfulness pp. 291-309

Carlos A. Albacete-Saez, Adriana P. Moreno-Marcial, María Isabel Roldan Bravo, Elisa Rescalvo-Martin and Francisco Javier Llorens Montes

Job teleworkability and labour outcomes in the time of COVID-19: evidence from Russia pp. 310-328

Elena Kotyrlo

Taxation and labor supply decisions: impact of the earned income tax credit in Italy pp. 329-352

Luca Villamaina and Paolo Acciari

Always on emails and employee wellbeing: the role of subjective norm of connectivity pp. 353-367

Berivan Tatar and Oya Erdil

Beyond the headlines: understanding the organizational dynamics of sector-specific sexual harassment pp. 368-385

Imanol Nuñez and Andrea Ollo-López

Volume 46, issue 1, 2024

Does psychological empowerment mediate the HPWS-AFFECTIVE commitment relationship? pp. 1-17

Inmaculada Beltrán-Martín, Juan Carlos Bou-Llusar, Beatriz García-Juan and Alejandro Salvador-Gomez

Tax incentives for jobs: bang for the buck or wasted resources? pp. 18-35

Tilahun Emiru and Temesgen Woldamanuel Wajebo

Impact of green self-managed teams on firm’s performance: a moderating serial mediation model from an emerging market pp. 36-57

Subhash C. Kundu and Purnima Chahar

Employment discrimination against transgender women in England pp. 58-74

Nick Drydakis

Exploring the dark side of high-performance work systems: growing employee employability at the cost of retention? pp. 75-91

Jarrod Haar

Exploring the mechanism to understand workaholism effects on positive and negative behaviors: a moderated mediated study pp. 92-110

Azka Ghafoor and Jarrod Haar

Intellectual capital as a driver of value creation in Serbian entrepreneurial firms pp. 111-127

Mihailo Paunović, Vesna Milovanović, Dijana Štrbac and Ivana Domazet

Intersectional analysis of the labour market impacts of COVID on women with young children and in low-skilled jobs pp. 128-149

Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Viet Ha and Hui Ming

Effects of autonomy support on innovation: resolving the dilemma of participation in innovation with trust pp. 150-167

Rhokeun Park and Saehee Kang

Two birds, one stone: minimum wage and child labor pp. 168-196

Utku Ozmen and Belgi Turan

Volume 45, issue 10, 2024

Are there differences in the perceived advantages and disadvantages of teleworking? The identification of distinct classes of teleworkers pp. 1-15

Vicente Peñarroja

Labour market segmentation and the gender wage gap in Spain pp. 16-41

Fernando Núñez Hernández, Carlos Usabiaga and Pablo Álvarez de Toledo

Are intensified job demands positive challenges for employees? Associations with work engagement in different occupational samples pp. 42-58

Saija Mauno, Taru Feldt, Mari Herttalampi and Jaana Minkkinen

How curiosity affects contextual performance: an emotional daily dynamics perspective pp. 59-76

Ana Junça Silva and António Caetano

Analysis of the factors determining educational mismatches: evidence from the Catalonian employment insertion surveys pp. 77-95

Pau Cortadas-Guasch

Does greater filial piety bring more gender income advantages? Exploring the influence of traditional Chinese filial piety on the gender wage gap pp. 96-114

Xiaoman Li, Xinxin Yang and Qi Zheng

Is employment protection legislation a driver or an inhibitor of entrepreneurship? The interaction between stringency and enforcement pp. 115-143

Emilio Congregado, Ana Rodriguez-Santiago and Concepción Román

Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter? pp. 144-161

Ngoc Hân Nguyen, Wendy Smits and Mark Vancauteren

Volume 45, issue 9, 2024

How does organizational support for innovation influence job crafting and knowledge sharing behaviors? A comparison between teleworkers and office workers pp. 1673-1700

Sari Mansour and Dima Mohanna

Unlocking the power of employee word-of-mouth to recruit young talent within university settings pp. 1701-1719

Sofia Α. Panagiotidou and Dimitrios Mihail

Workplace bullying and job burnout: the moderating role of employee voice pp. 1720-1737

Atiat Ullah and Neuza Ribeiro

How do different forms of early employment instability affect future employment chances? A factorial survey experiment with employers pp. 1738-1755

Lulu P. Shi

Informal employment and subjective well-being in urban China: do employment sector and working time flexibility matter? pp. 1756-1771

Muwen Wang

Firm strategy, employee retention and organizational performance: a moderated mediation study of New Zealand SMEs pp. 1772-1796

Jarrod Haar and Stephen James Kelly

Feedback, training, goal-setting, planning and performance: understanding the pathway to improved organizational outcomes pp. 1797-1815

James Chowhan, Sara Mann and Marie-Hélène Budworth

The trees of occupation are flourishing: employment and substitution effects of regional economic complexity pp. 1816-1831

Teng Long and Linmu Li

Labour market feminization and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1832-1848

Oluwabunmi O. Adejumo, Joshua F. Obisanya and Folashade O. Akinyemi

Connecting the dots: exploring the role of ebullient supervision in fostering knowledge sharing through curiosity and informal learning pp. 1849-1865

Talat Islam, Saima Ahmad and Arooba Chaudhary

Volume 45, issue 8, 2024

Is it possible to broaden women's inclusive rights by improving their participation in the labor market? A new perspective at the global level pp. 1493-1515

Amjad Naveed, Nisar Ahmad, Aribah Aslam, Misbah Tanveer Choudhry and Hania Bekdash-Muellers

Exploitative training versus explorative training: the effect of strategic human capital investment on organizational performance pp. 1516-1539

Xiaoning Song, Jiangyan Li and Xue Xia

Flexing to outperform: workforce differentiation, HR flexibility and firm performance pp. 1540-1554

Paula Apascaritei, Marta M. Elvira and María Rodríguez-García

Workplace accidents, economic determinants and underreporting: an empirical analysis in Italy pp. 1555-1572

Maria Alessandra Antonelli, Angelo Castaldo, Marco Forti, Alessia Marrocco and Andrea Salustri

The informational effect of pay for individual performance on intrinsic motivation pp. 1573-1588

Cristiana Rodrigues Vilaça, Teresa Proença and Mauro Carozzo-Todaro

Flexicurity and employment inflows in the EU28 countries: a panel data analysis pp. 1589-1606

Marina Ferent-Pipas

How middle-skilled workers adjust to immigration: the role of occupational skill specificity pp. 1607-1625

Damiano Pregaldini and Uschi Backes-Gellner

The persistence of labour market states in Australia pp. 1626-1654

Lixin Cai and Kostas Mavromaras

Intent to stay of Chinese agency workers in the information technology outsourcing industry pp. 1655-1672

Xiwei Zhang, Xiaoyan Liang and Qijie Xiao

Volume 45, issue 7, 2024

Integration of immigrant women in Europe: a multifaceted approach pp. 1281-1308

Giuseppina Autiero and Annamaria Nese

Using indirect survey techniques to investigate the relationship between employee personal experience of abusive supervision and job performance pp. 1309-1325

Leonidas A. Zampetakis

Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers’ incomes: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability pp. 1326-1349

Giovanni Gallo, Silvia Granato and Michele Raitano

Polychronicity fit and turnover intentions in projects: the mediating roles of exhaustion and work overload pp. 1350-1364

Syed Waqas Shah, Denise Mary Jepsen and Sarah Bankins

The role of noncognitive skills in educational mismatch: evidence from China pp. 1365-1384

Shiyang Liu, Weibiao Ma and Nanxin Deng

Motivating supervisors during disability accommodation: a comprehensive examination on job demand and resources theories pp. 1385-1408

Mohammad Shahin Alam, Kelly Williams-Whitt, DuckJung Shin and Mahfooz Ansari

Beyond the Griliches biases pp. 1409-1425

Corrado Andini and Monica Andini

Sustainable strategies, employee competencies and social outcomes: are they aligned? pp. 1426-1449

Mirta Diaz-Fernandez, Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales and Ramón Valle-Cabrera

Post-compulsory schooling of youth in Turkey: a case of pro-cyclical enrollment pp. 1450-1473

Murat Demirci and Meltem Poyraz

The influence of human resource management policies on employee behaviour related outcomes and organisational resilience during COVID-19 pp. 1474-1491

Kevin Baird, Amy Tung, Thanh Phan and Mohammed Bhuyan

Volume 45, issue 6, 2024

Unraveling unemployment hysteresis in Nordic countries: a multifaceted analysis of age, gender and frequency differentials pp. 1093-1111

Veli Yilanci, Mustafa Kırca, Şeri̇f Canbay and Muhlis Selman Sağlam

Commuting while Black: compensating differentials and Black–White wage gap in Canada pp. 1112-1131

Maryam Dilmaghani

Well-being of migrant workers in Taiwan during COVID-19 pandemic: the role of perceived organisational support, employee resilience and ethical leadership pp. 1132-1149

Loan Ngoc Tuong Pham, Duong Tuan Nguyen, An Hoang Kim Vo and Lam Dang Nguyen

Does access to assistive technologies enhance labour force participation amongst the disabled population? Evidence from India pp. 1150-1170

Subramania Raju Rajasulochana and Mohd Imran Khan

Having your career path decided too early: the effects of high school track on education-occupation mismatch pp. 1171-1190

Alina Botezat, Cristian Incaltarau, Sabina Ana Diac and Alexandra Claudia Grosu

Is labour force participation independent of unemployment? A panel analysis for high-income countries pp. 1191-1208

Walter Paternesi Meloni

Social contacts, neighborhoods and individual unemployment risk pp. 1209-1223

Ambra Poggi

The impact of COVID-19 on women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from four MENA countries pp. 1224-1244

Vladimir Hlasny, Reham Rizk and Nada Rostom

The curvilinear relationship between moral identity and unethical pro-organizational behavior: moderating role of organizational identification pp. 1245-1261

Vivek Mishra, Varun Sharma and Nishant Uppal

Labour mobility, short-time work and working from home: establishments' behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis pp. 1262-1278

Lisa Bellmann, Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler

Volume 45, issue 5, 2023

Job satisfaction in Europe: a gender analysis pp. 865-884

Nunzia Nappo and Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera

The impact of the US–China trade war on Taiwanese firms' R&D investment and outward investment to technologically advanced countries pp. 885-907

Yu-Cheng Lai and Santanu Sarkar

On working from home in European countries pp. 908-925

Vahagn Jerbashian and Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi

Analysis of gender wage gap and the Nigerian labour market: a new empirical evidence pp. 926-957

Anthony Orji and Emmanuel Nwosu

HRA adoption via organizational analytics maturity: examining the role of institutional theory, resource-based view and diffusion of innovation pp. 958-983

Despoina Ioakeimidou, Dimitrios Chatzoudes, Symeon Symeonidis and Prodromos Chatzoglou

From zero to Hero: effect of gender diversity on corporate social performance in Brazil pp. 984-998

Alan Bandeira Pinheiro, Nágela Bianca do Prado, Ana Julia Batistella, Cintia De Melo de Albuquerque Ribeiro and Sady Mazzioni

Navigating repatriation: factors influencing turnover intentions of self-initiated repatriates in emerging economies pp. 999-1018

Nga Thi Thuy Ho, Hung Trong Hoang, Pi-Shen Seet and Janice Jones

Exporting is a team sport: the link between management training and performance in SMEs pp. 1019-1036

Bochra Idris, George Saridakis, Yannis Georgellis, Yanqing Lai and Stewart Johnstone

Which employers pay a higher college wage premium? pp. 1037-1075

Kenta Ikeuchi, Kyoji Fukao and Cristiano Perugini

Gender bias in university student mobility: a cohort analysis in Italy pp. 1076-1092

Isabella Sulis, Barbara Barbieri, Luisa Salaris, Gabriella Melis and Mariano Porcu

Volume 45, issue 4, 2023

To what extent are ageist attitudes among employers translated into discriminatory practices pp. 661-675

Per H. Jensen, Wouter De Tavernier and Peter Nielsen

The role of ethical leadership and psychological capital in influencing employee attitudes: a moderated-mediation model pp. 676-696

Saeed Loghman, Michael Quinn, Sarah Dawkins and Jenn Scott

Research on the suitability of telework in the context of COVID-19 pp. 697-713

Zhen Han, Yuheng Zhao and Mengjie Chen

The returns to returning to school pp. 714-732

Benjamin Charles Adams

Are we only all by ourselves? A double-level perspective to cope with the insecurity of the nonstandard gig work model pp. 733-753

Jianyu Chen

The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity pp. 754-778

Mauro Caselli, Andrea Fracasso, Arianna Marcolin and Sergio Scicchitano

The gender gap in voluntary turnover pp. 779-800

Benjamin Artz

Green human resource management practices as a strategic choice for enhancing employees' environmental outcomes: an affective events theory perspective pp. 801-819

Rimsha Iqbal, Khurram Shahzad and Richa Chaudhary

Mobile work, individual aspirations and job satisfaction in Europe pp. 820-837

Ylenia Curzi, Barbara Pistoresi and Gaetano Francesco Coppeta

Labour shortages and employer preferences in retaining and recruiting older workers pp. 838-863

Aart-Jan Riekhoff, Noora Järnefelt, Mikko Laaksonen and Jyri Liukko

Volume 45, issue 3, 2023

Wage dispersion and firm performance: evidence from Kazakhstan pp. 425-448

Aigerim Yergabulova, Dinara Alpysbayeva and Venkat Subramanian

Innovation as a firm-level factor of the gender wage gap pp. 449-465

Jaan Masso and Priit Vahter

Work from home and workplace ostracism, beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: moderating effect of perceived organizational support pp. 466-483

Said Al Riyami, Mohammad Rezaur Razzak and Adil S. Al-Busaidi

The effects of work-life balance on the well-being of older workers: same-same or same-different? pp. 484-499

Jarrod Haar, Candice Harris and Barbara Myers

On-the-job training, wages and digitalisation: evidence from European firms pp. 500-520

Cecilia Jona-Lasinio and Francesco Venturini

Psychosocial influence of blended working: the reciprocity of blended working and organizational optimism pp. 521-538

Kedarnath Thakur, Talina Mishra, Lalatendu Kesari Jena and Suchitra Pal

Working from home and job satisfaction: evidence from Russia pp. 539-561

Larisa Smirnykh

Material matters: concrete support and adaptability to work-related change during COVID-19 pp. 562-575

Brian Cooper, Tracey Shea, Julie W. Cox, Naomi Stead and Jonathan Robberts

The differential effects of human resource management on organizational innovation: a meta-analytic examination pp. 576-596

Mengsang Chen, Mengdi Wu, Xiaohui Wang and Haibo Wang

Employee perceptions of disruption knowledge: the influence on career attitudes and behaviors pp. 597-613

David Brougham and Jarrod Haar

Part time jobs, fragmentation and work instability: light on the gender gap in Emilia-Romagna pp. 614-638

Maria Giovanna Bosco and Elisa Valeriani

The influence of non-cognitive ability on the wage of rural migrant workers pp. 639-660

Hao Li

Volume 45, issue 2, 2023

Antecedents and job outcomes from a self-efficacy perspective while working from home among professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 217-236

Remya Lathabhavan and Mark D. Griffiths

The salience of remote leadership: implications for follower self-control and work-life balance pp. 237-254

Megan M. Walsh, Erica L. Carleton, Julie Ziemer and Mikaila Ortynsky

Exploring the psychological contract during new normal: construction and validation of the revised psychological contract scale pp. 255-278

Anushree Karani Mehta, Heena Thanki, Rasananda Panda and Payal Trivedi

Work-from-home intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective integrating inclusive leadership and protection motivation theory pp. 279-298

Seng-Su Tsang, Zhih Lin Liu and Thi Vinh Tran Nguyen

Inclusive leadership and work-from-home engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a moderated mediation model pp. 299-318

Thi Vinh Tran Nguyen and Seng-Su Tsang

Using theory of mind to understand the impact of Covid-19 fear on healthcare workers’ withdrawal intentions pp. 319-338

Garima Saini, Sanket Sunand Dash and Anurag Tiwari

The impact of COVID-19 on work from home of ethnic groups in the USA: evidence from time-use data pp. 339-357

Rezart Hoxhaj and Florian Miti

Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance pp. 358-378

Jorge de Andres-Sanchez, Angel Belzunegui-Eraso and Amaya Erro-Garcés

Inductive open data study on teleworking dissatisfaction in Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic pp. 379-397

Javier de Esteban Curiel, Arta Antonovica and Maria del Rosario Sánchez Morales

The effect of telework on emotional exhaustion and task performance via work overload: the moderating role of self-leadership pp. 398-421

Ana Junça Silva, Alexandra Almeida and Carla Rebelo

Volume 45, issue 1, 2023

Future of work from everywhere: a systematic review pp. 12-48

Urmila Jagadeeswari Itam and Uma Warrier

Teleworking: role of psychological well-being and technostress in the relationship between trust in management and employee performance pp. 49-71

Akanksha Jaiswal, Santoshi Sengupta, Madhusmita Panda, Lopamudra Hati, Verma Prikshat, Parth Patel and Syed Mohyuddin

Vigour and exhaustion for employees working from home: the mediating role of need for structure satisfaction pp. 72-88

Swati Alok, Navya Kumar and Sudatta Banerjee

Procrastination is not only a “thief of time”, but also a thief of happiness: it buffers the beneficial effects of telework on well-being via daily micro-events of IT workers pp. 89-108

Ana Junça Silva, Patrícia Neves and António Caetano

When and why workplace cyberbullying influences intention to stay: role of workplace social capital and affective commitment pp. 109-132

Mariam Anil Ciby and Shikha Sahai

Workplace isolation during COVID-19 and work–family conflict among academicians: interplay of psychological stress and organizational identification pp. 133-154

Shameem Shagirbasha, Juman Iqbal, Kumar Madhan, Swati Chaudhary and Rosy Dhall

The telework performance dilemma: exploring the role of trust, social isolation and fatigue pp. 155-168

Pilar Ficapal-Cusí, Joan Torrent-Sellens, Pedro Palos-Sanchez and Inés González-González

How do teleworkers escape burnout? A moderated-mediation model of the job demands and turnover intention pp. 169-199

Mohd Tariq Jamal, Imran Anwar, Nawab Ali Khan and Gayas Ahmad

A time after time effect in telework: an explanation of willingness to telework and self-reported productivity pp. 200-214

Maribel Labrado Antolín, Óscar Rodríguez-Ruiz and José Fernández Menéndez