Personnel Management in Times of Technical and Organizational Change

Personnel Management in Times of Technical and Organizational Change

In this research project we analyse strategies to increase labour market flexibility of firms. Due to the constant rise in labour market requirements for all participants, firms need to react to the increasing heterogeneity in the labour market by flexible human resource policies.

The project contains four sub-projects:

  1. technical and organisational change and the firms labour demand for skilled female and elderly workers,
  2. determinants and consequences of contingent labour contracts,
  3. approaches to protect firms investments in general human capital,
  4. flexibility capabilities in wage policy and work organisation.

All sub-projects represent consequent advancements of the current discussion. The theoretical analysis is based on the modern personnel economics. Hence, the investigations mainly focus on the level of the firm and thus deal with firm strategies. All topics will be analysed econometrically, which is facilitated by the availability of firm and individual level data sets as well as linked employer employee data.

Project members

Prof. Dr. Michael Beckmann, Dr.

Prof. Dr. Michael Beckmann, Dr.

Project Coordinator

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Prof. Dr. Bernd Schauenberg, Dr.

Prof. Dr. Bernd Schauenberg, Dr.

Project Coordinator

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Grit Mühler

Grit Mühler

Senior Researcher

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Selected Publications

The Returns to Continuous Training in Germany: New Evidence from Propensity Score Matching Estimators

Mühler, Grit, Michael Beckmann and Bernd Schauenberg (2007), The Returns to Continuous Training in Germany: New Evidence from Propensity Score Matching Estimators, ZEW Discussion Paper LLL:citation.label.number 07-048, Mannheim, published in: Review of Managerial Science.

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