Firms’ Training and Recruitment Decisions
Answers to the question as to which factors influence decisions about vocational training and recruitment are highly relevant from both an academic and political perspective. Based on empirical findings, stakeholders can developed effective measures to enhance the system of vocational education and training.
Most research activities both within and outside of BIBB have so far concentrated on a specific, reduced set of influencing factors of firm decision-making using the respective economic, sociological or psychological theoretical framework. Studies taking a multidisciplinary approach are rare.
The research project is taking a new approach in that it is first identifying and analysing decision-maker specific influencing factors that have not been investigated in empirical literature up to now. In a second step, the projects conjointly analyses individual, organisational and institutional determinants of firm-level decision-making. The project is thus conducting a multi-level approach, bringing together different levels of determinants in a single model. Starting from behavioural economics approaches, the project also makes use of various further theoretical and methodical approaches.
The aim of the project is to gain insights as to
- the role that the personal characteristics of decision-makers play in influencing firms’ decisions in vocational training and recruitment and
- the relative importance of personal characteristics in comparison to organisational and institutional factors.
The results are providing new empirical findings concerning the factors that influence firms’ decision-making processes of concerning qualification and recruitment. The results can be used as a starting point for designing suitable policies to foster the vocational education and training engagement of firms. The project is assigned to the topic cluster “Corporate decision-making and action – influencing factors for vocational training and recruitment”.
Publications
Minssen, L.; M. Levels; H. Pfeifer; C. Wehner (forthcoming in German Journal of Human Resource Management): Are recruiters driving gender segregation? Evidence from the German apprenticeship market.
SCHÖNFELD, G. (forthcoming in BIBB Fachbeiträge zur beruflichen Bildung): Persönlichkeitsmerkmale und Präferenzen betrieblicher Entscheidungsträger/-innen. Bonn 2024.
Minssen, Luisa; Levels, Mark; Pfeifer, Harald; Wehner, Caroline (2024): Recruiting mid-qualified workers in product-innovating firms: Which personality traits matter?, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 112, 102267.
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Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Pfeifer, Harald; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wehner, Caroline (2024): Managers’ risk preferences and firm training investments, European Economic Review, Vol. 161, 104616.
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Lammers, Alexander; Lukowski, Felix; Weis, Kathrin (2023): The relationship between works councils and firms’ further training provision in times of technological change. British Journals of Industrial Relations, Vol. 61 (2), pp. 392-424.
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Wehner, Caroline; De Grip, Andries; Pfeifer, Harald (2022): Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? A discrete choice experiment
Labour Economics, Vol. 78, 102186.
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