Call for Papers
Advances in Personnel Economics
Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Personalforschung
(German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management)
Special Issue Editors: Alex Bryson, Robert Dur, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Alexander K. Koch, Edward P. Lazear
The application of economic theory and principles to firms‘ human resource problems is commonplace today. Personnel economics has come a long way since its early days in the late 1970s and 1980s, when Ed Lazear and others have developed its theoretical foundations. Since then researchers have more and more made use of new data, e.g. from individual firms and conducted econometric case studies or from country-wide linked employer-employee data sets to explore more general relationships. In addition, experimental designs implemented both in the lab and in the field have been frequently used. The empirical insights have again affected enhancements in theory, e.g. by considering social preferences or norms guiding decisions which had been originally neglected by economic theory. The exciting and innovative field of personnel economics is now widely recognized with its own JEL code.
The guest editors wish to contribute to this work with a special issue devoted to the field of personnel economics. Submitted papers should deal with a relevant issue in a powerful and compelling way, contributing to international research. The guest editors welcome both theoretical and empirical (including experimental) submissions. We also encourage conceptual submissions that discuss the scope, the status quo and future directions of (part of) the field.
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 31.10.2015