Employment effects of human resource management in firms – Continuing the strategic development of personnel economics at the ZEW
The project aims at developing a coherent research and
consulting strategy for the research area Personnel Economics within the
department Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy. The existing
expertise in empirical research and in the evaluation of personnel management practices
will be used to provide scientifically based business consulting in order to
develop a new line of funding for the research group. The project covers three
main topics: the effects of Human Resources Management (HRM) on career paths,
monitoring and recruiting of skilled labor, as well as HRM possibilities of
fostering innovation. Methodologically, we will utilize personnel records of
firms as well as representative employer-employee-data sets. In detail, the
project consists of three modules. First, newly available integrated
employer-employee-data will be used to analyze career paths. Moreover, we will
use additional company data to complement this analysis. Second, we will invest
into methods and data for monitoring and forecasting university graduation
rates as well as the availability of skilled labor. Third, an existing survey
is expanded to analyze the effects of HRM on the innovativeness of firms.
Duration: 01.09.2011 - 30.06.2013
