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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beneath the surface of social interactions: how informal networking fuels undercurrent conflict in Middle Eastern MNCs	148
Wage effects of educational mismatch in public and private sectors: evidence from Türkiye	109
The informational effect of pay for individual performance on intrinsic motivation	61
Beyond the Griliches biases	52
Gender bias in university student mobility: a cohort analysis in Italy	49
The effects of work-life balance on the well-being of older workers: same-same or same-different?	36
The impact of place attachment on return migration intention: a moderated mediation study	35
Covid-19 heterogeneous effects on Italian workers’ incomes: the role of jobs routinization and teleworkability	34
When working from home leads to burnout: the role of work–family conflict, job stress and partner work practices	33
Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? A systematic review of the literature	31
Intellectual capital as a driver of value creation in Serbian entrepreneurial firms	31
Distributed coping under algorithmic HRM: extending the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping in platform-based online freelancing	28
Green human resource management: the role of positive levers of control and environmental performance measures in managing performance	28
Navigating repatriation: factors influencing turnover intentions of self-initiated repatriates in emerging economies	28
Is employment protection legislation a driver or an inhibitor of entrepreneurship? The interaction between stringency and enforcement	27
Unravelling high-skilled internal migration in Spain using network theory: a manpower linked to local economic development	26
The returns to returning to school	26
The impact of COVID-19 on women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from four MENA countries	26
Transformational leadership, wasta and workforce localisation in Saudi Arabia: a sequential mediation model	25
Technological change and returns to training	25
Effects of educational mismatch on wages across industry and occupations: sectoral comparison	23
Is it possible to broaden women's inclusive rights by improving their participation in the labor market? A new perspective at the global level	23
How ethical leadership and green values influence green performance management and creativity? Evidence from firms in Saudi Arabia	22
Understanding technostress and employee well-being in digital work: the roles of work exhaustion and workplace knowledge diversity	21
Data factor market construction and firm labor income share: a quasi-natural experimental analysis based on China's data trading platforms	21

Human values and selection into supervisory positions: evidence from nine European countries	20
IJM 43.7 Obituary	20
The impact of participation in global value chains on female employment: evidence from China	19
Italian NEETs in 2012–2021: job search channels and labour market reforms	19
Low-pay work in Europe: dynamics, evolution and the role of institutional factors	19
Wage and fiscal policy re-examined. An assessment of employment and productivity using Italian regional data	19
Work and artificial intelligence in Italy: between opportunities and risks	18
Optimize your leadership pipeline: leveraging HR analytics for C-suite executive development	18
Care, labour force participation and health: the case of Italy	18
The labor market effect of customer concentration: based on resource allocation perspective	18
Guest editorial: Immersive telework: a new hybrid organizational model	17
Focus section guest editorial: Methodological advances in HR research	17
Noncognitive skills in training curricula and nonlinear wage returns	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
Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter?	15
SCM and SME performance in Australia: the mediating role of HRM practices	14
Complementary collective bargaining and firm performance: new evidence for Italian firms	14
Knowledge-oriented leadership and workers' performance: do individual knowledge management engagement and empowerment matter?	14
Examining the impact of co-workers’ sexism on citizenship behaviors and performance outcomes: the moderating role of leaders’ gender	13
Synthetic Labor Market Index: construction and application to the Spanish case	13
The trees of occupation are flourishing: employment and substitution effects of regional economic complexity	12
Promoting proactive extra-role service behaviors through empowering leadership: the role of mindfulness	12
Analysis of the factors determining educational mismatches: evidence from the Catalonian employment insertion surveys	12
Does the national innovation system efficiency affect workplace accidents? An empirical analysis in Europe	12
Are alternative work arrangements a substitute for standard employment? Evidence from worker-level data	11
Does greater filial piety bring more gender income advantages? Exploring the influence of traditional Chinese filial piety on the gender wage gap	11
The rainbow reality: income difference and discrimination based on sexual orientation and occupations	11
Feedback, training, goal-setting, planning and performance: understanding the pathway to improved organizational outcomes	11
Gender inequality in labor markets: a stochastic convergence study of unemployment gaps in the OECD	11
Which employers pay a higher college wage premium?	10
Working from home and job satisfaction: evidence from Russia	10
The differential effects of human resource management on organizational innovation: a meta-analytic examination	10
Integrating push–pull dynamics for understanding the association between boundary control and work outcomes in the context of mandatory work from home	10
How do human resource practices help employees alleviate stress in enforced remote work during lockdown?	10
Do (gendered) ageism and ethnic minorities explain workplace bullying?	10
The curvilinear relationship between moral identity and unethical pro-organizational behavior: moderating role of organizational identification	9
Informal labor security in India and external and internal shocks: assessing the impacts of climate change, COVID-19, migration and political collusion	9
Intent to stay of Chinese agency workers in the information technology outsourcing industry	9
Explaining job satisfaction through the use of work–familybenefits and their impact on the employee’s family context	9
Exploring the psychological contract during new normal: construction and validation of the revised psychological contract scale	9
Overqualified and pushed to start a business? How overqualification shapes women's entrepreneurship in the European Union	9
Strategic deviations and firm employment decisions – empirical evidence from China	8
Who uses deceptive impression management to succeed at job interviews? The role of ethical ideologies and work locus of control	8
Perception of home teleworking during COVID-19 crisis in Spain: significant factors and assymetrical influence on acceptance and resistance	8
How does organizational support for innovation influence job crafting and knowledge sharing behaviors? A comparison between teleworkers and office workers	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
The role of ethical leadership and psychological capital in influencing employee attitudes: a moderated-mediation model	8
The gender wage gap across the unconditional wage distribution in a period of uncertainty: findings from Serbia	8
Compassion and altruism in organizations: a path for firm survival	7

How to prevent incivility from women employees? The role of psychological contract violation, aggressive reciprocal attitude and conscientiousness	7
Has it gone down the drain? The influence of overeducation on the wages of young workers	7
Workplace accidents, economic determinants and underreporting: an empirical analysis in Italy	7
Does investment in training help firms retain talent? Testing the commitment and human capital perspectives	7
Workplace bullying and job outcomes: intersectional effects of gender and culture	7
Firm strategy, employee retention and organizational performance: a moderated mediation study of New Zealand SMEs	7
Unemployment benefits and job finding: evidence from Spain’s policy reforms across the business cycle	7
How curiosity affects contextual performance: an emotional daily dynamics perspective	7
Skill signaling, job mobility and wage dynamics: evidence from Ethiopia’s industrial parks	7
Empowering small farmers for sustainable agriculture: a human resource approach to SDG-driven training and innovation	7
Green human resource management practices as a strategic choice for enhancing employees' environmental outcomes: an affective events theory perspective	7
The role of international experience and cultural intelligence in the intention to work abroad (the case of geographically and politically isolated countries)	7
Exploring the dark side of high-performance work systems: growing employee employability at the cost of retention?	7