Crowd employment platforms in Spain are a rather recent development. However, they have experienced remarkable growth during the economic crisis. The number of workers and clients has increased in the sectors already using crowd employment (including creative design), and the phenomenon has spread to other sectors such as housing and design, computing, book editing and translation (InfoCrowdsou...

BACKGROUND In light of Germany's ageing society, demand for nursing professionals is expected to increase in the coming years. This will pose a challenge for policy makers to increase the supply of nursing professionals. METHODOLOGY To portray the different possible developments in the supply of nursing professionals, we projected the supply of formally trained nurses and the potential supply...

Interorganizational coordination (IOC) is a critical part of planning, because planning mostly involves multiple organizational interactions. Investment and employment are considered as multi-dimensional and multi-sectional challenges that the management of them requires intersectional and interorganizational cooperation. The goal of this research is the investigation of the interorganizational...

This paper deals with the effects of implementing a basic income on the labor supply side. The German welfare as well as tax and social contributions system are investigated. The results clarify that the abolishment of the so-called unemployment trap due to a basic income policy is a decisive advantage of this approach. In order to demonstrate possible labor supply side reactions to a basic inc...

Modern economies experience recurrent fluctuations in business activity. As output and employment fall in recessions and busts and rise in recoveries and booms, other variables of economic significance also go through lows and highs. One such variable is real wages. Generally speaking, real wages are he cyclical behavior of real wages — wages adjusted for inflation — has changed over time. Befo...

The Australian government, to remind job seekers of appointments with employment services providers in order to cut costs and free up human resources, is using technologies such as Short Messaging Services (SMS). However, the technologies in-use are but one side of this equation – the specifics of how these technologies are used is the other side, and these specifics are highly undertheorized, ...

Service economy, service science, service-dominant logic and servitization are apparently related terms. All of them emerged and are located in different disciplines, which do not ease things at all. Accordingly, this paper provides on the one side a fundamental theoretical background on these topics, and on the other side facilitates subsequent research by providing some reference points. At t...