OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Manpower is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Beneath the surface of social interactions: how informal networking fuels undercurrent conflict in Middle Eastern MNCs	126
Wage effects of educational mismatch in public and private sectors: evidence from Türkiye	98
Green human resource management: the role of positive levers of control and environmental performance measures in managing performance	59
Intellectual capital as a driver of value creation in Serbian entrepreneurial firms	48
The informational effect of pay for individual performance on intrinsic motivation	45
Beyond the Griliches biases	43
Gender bias in university student mobility: a cohort analysis in Italy	41
The impact of place attachment on return migration intention: a moderated mediation study	32
Navigating repatriation: factors influencing turnover intentions of self-initiated repatriates in emerging economies	32
The effects of work-life balance on the well-being of older workers: same-same or same-different?	32
When working from home leads to burnout: the role of work–family conflict, job stress and partner work practices	30
Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers’ incomes: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability	29
Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? A systematic review of the literature	29
Is employment protection legislation a driver or an inhibitor of entrepreneurship? The interaction between stringency and enforcement	28
Unravelling high-skilled internal migration in Spain using network theory: a manpower linked to local economic development	27
Is it possible to broaden women's inclusive rights by improving their participation in the labor market? A new perspective at the global level	27
How ethical leadership and green values influence green performance management and creativity? Evidence from firms in Saudi Arabia	26
Data factor market construction and firm labor income share: a quasi-natural experimental analysis based on China's data trading platforms	26
The returns to returning to school	25
Social ties, absorptive capacity, and the adoption of green innovation: a social capital perspective	25
The impact of COVID-19 on women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from four MENA countries	25
Understanding technostress and employee well-being in digital work: the roles of work exhaustion and workplace knowledge diversity	23
Transformational leadership, wasta and workforce localisation in Saudi Arabia: a sequential mediation model	23
Technological change and returns to training	23
IJM 43.7 Obituary	22

Effects of educational mismatch on wages across industry and occupations: sectoral comparison	22
Optimize your leadership pipeline: leveraging HR analytics for C-suite executive development	21
Human values and selection into supervisory positions: evidence from nine European countries	20
Low-pay work in Europe: dynamics, evolution and the role of institutional factors	20
Italian NEETs in 2012–2021: job search channels and labour market reforms	19
The impact of participation in global value chains on female employment: evidence from China	18
Wage and fiscal policy re-examined. An assessment of employment and productivity using Italian regional data	18
Care, labour force participation and health: the case of Italy	18
Synthetic Labor Market Index: construction and application to the Spanish case	17
The labor market effect of customer concentration: based on resource allocation perspective	17
Complementary collective bargaining and firm performance: new evidence for Italian firms	17
Guest editorial: Immersive telework: a new hybrid organizational model	16
Knowledge-oriented leadership and workers' performance: do individual knowledge management engagement and empowerment matter?	16
Noncognitive skills in training curricula and nonlinear wage returns	16
Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter?	16
How have R&D investments and participation of high-skilled labour influenced the labour market in Taiwan ROC during the COVID-19 pandemic?	16
Focus section guest editorial: Methodological advances in HR research	16
SCM and SME performance in Australia: the mediating role of HRM practices	15
Promoting proactive extra-role service behaviors through empowering leadership: the role of mindfulness	14
Does the national innovation system efficiency affect workplace accidents? An empirical analysis in Europe	14
Examining the impact of co-workers’ sexism on citizenship behaviors and performance outcomes: the moderating role of leaders’ gender	14
The rainbow reality: income difference and discrimination based on sexual orientation and occupations	13
Feedback, training, goal-setting, planning and performance: understanding the pathway to improved organizational outcomes	13
Gender inequality in labor markets: a stochastic convergence study of unemployment gaps in the OECD	13
The trees of occupation are flourishing: employment and substitution effects of regional economic complexity	13
Does greater filial piety bring more gender income advantages? Exploring the influence of traditional Chinese filial piety on the gender wage gap	11
Do (gendered) ageism and ethnic minorities explain workplace bullying?	11
Exploring the psychological contract during new normal: construction and validation of the revised psychological contract scale	11
Analysis of the factors determining educational mismatches: evidence from the Catalonian employment insertion surveys	11
Working from home and job satisfaction: evidence from Russia	11
Integrating push–pull dynamics for understanding the association between boundary control and work outcomes in the context of mandatory work from home	11
Are alternative work arrangements a substitute for standard employment? Evidence from worker-level data	11
How do human resource practices help employees alleviate stress in enforced remote work during lockdown?	11
Which employers pay a higher college wage premium?	10
Cross-level effects of union practices on extra-role behaviors: the mediating role of industrial relations climate, union commitment and union instrumentality	10
Intent to stay of Chinese agency workers in the information technology outsourcing industry	10
The differential effects of human resource management on organizational innovation: a meta-analytic examination	10
Explaining job satisfaction through the use of work–familybenefits and their impact on the employee’s family context	9
Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance	9
Employee’s intention to share knowledge: the impacts of learning organization culture and learning goal orientation	9
Overqualified and pushed to start a business? How overqualification shapes women's entrepreneurship in the European Union	9
Informal labor security in India and external and internal shocks: assessing the impacts of climate change, COVID-19, migration and political collusion	9
The curvilinear relationship between moral identity and unethical pro-organizational behavior: moderating role of organizational identification	9
Strategic deviations and firm employment decisions – empirical evidence from China	8
Workplace bullying and job outcomes: intersectional effects of gender and culture	8
Re-expatriation inclinations among skilled female self-initiated repatriates in Asia's rapidly emerging markets	8
The impact of employee support on labor investment efficiency: the mediating role of internal control weaknesses	8
Compassion and altruism in organizations: a path for firm survival	8
How does organizational support for innovation influence job crafting and knowledge sharing behaviors? A comparison between teleworkers and office workers	8
The gender wage gap across the unconditional wage distribution in a period of uncertainty: findings from Serbia	8

The role of ethical leadership and psychological capital in influencing employee attitudes: a moderated-mediation model	8
Skill signaling, job mobility and wage dynamics: evidence from Ethiopia’s industrial parks	8
Who uses deceptive impression management to succeed at job interviews? The role of ethical ideologies and work locus of control	8
Green human resource management practices as a strategic choice for enhancing employees' environmental outcomes: an affective events theory perspective	8
Does investment in training help firms retain talent? Testing the commitment and human capital perspectives	7
Exploring the dark side of high-performance work systems: growing employee employability at the cost of retention?	7
Brain gain from Asia: educational and occupational selection of Asian migrants into the United States	7
Does working while studying affect education mismatch among youth? Evidence from Zambia	7
Has it gone down the drain? The influence of overeducation on the wages of young workers	7
Firm strategy, employee retention and organizational performance: a moderated mediation study of New Zealand SMEs	7
Empowering small farmers for sustainable agriculture: a human resource approach to SDG-driven training and innovation	7
How to prevent incivility from women employees? The role of psychological contract violation, aggressive reciprocal attitude and conscientiousness	7
Education as a partial remedy for the economic pressure of population ageing	7