In structural empirical models of labour market search, the distribution of wage offers is usually assumed to be exogenous. Because in setting their wages profit-maximizing firms should consider the reservation wages of job seekers, this assumption is hard to justify. In this paper we estimate a structural equilibrium search model in which the wage offer distribution is endogenous. The model ta...

This paper searches for the origins of the relatively successful performance of Hoogovens, the only sizeable steel firm in the Netherlands. It is suggested that Hoogovens has at critical moments benefited substantially from both strategic and financial support, but was basically left to decide its own policies. Luckily, it mostly opted for ‘right’ policies so that the industry’s decline hit les...

Teamwork is widely seen as a major workplace innovation, with the possibility of developing co-operative outcomes of benefit to management and workers. Yet much research stresses the darker side of work intensification and heightened self-discipline by workers. How can different outcomes of teams be understood? The contribution of the present paper is two-fold. First, it places teamwork in a wi...

This Research Topic explores issues that are central to the continued relevance of organizational and vocational psychology, and equally central to the well-being of individuals and communities. The cohering theme of this publication revolves around the question of how people can establish meaningful lives and meaningful work experiences in light of the many challenges that are reducing access ...

In the agricultural sector of Republic Uzbekistan, a tendency to automate production and business processes can be seen. Agriculture automation helps significantly reduce amount manual labour, while increasing work efficiency. It is possible single out following practical advantages introducing in sector: it becomes manage production, technological operations an optimized effortless manner; com...

Abstract Informal employment is a less favourable type of whose levels policy makers usually want to decrease and move these workers in the formal part labour market. It more commonly found LDCs developing economies, than developed ones. This paper uses cross-section multiple regression analysis check effects macroeconomic variables on size informal The sample made out economies for which ILO h...