Using internet activity data to analyze human resources issues / guest editors, Professor Nikolaos Askitas and Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Askitas, Nikolaos, editor.

Zimmermann, Klaus F., editor.

Series:

International Journal of Manpower: Volume 36, Issue 1

International Journal of Manpower, 0143-7720 ; Volume 36 Number 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information storage and retrieval systems--Personnel management.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Personnel management--Data processing.

Personnel management.

Personnel management--Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, West Yorkshire, England] : Emerald, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This special issue of the International Journal of Manpower examines the potentials and challenges of Internet data or ""Big Data"" for research in the social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. Internet data are increasingly representing a large part of everyday life. The information is timely, perhaps even daily following the factual process. It typically involves large numbers of observations and allows for flexible conceptual forms and experimental settings. The introduction paper by Nikolaos Askitas and Klaus F. Zimmermann on ""The Internet as a Data Source for Advanc

Contents:

Cover; Editorial advisory board; The internet as a data source for advancement in social sciences; Demographic research with non-representative internet data; Health and well-being in the great recession; A web survey analysis of subjective well-being; "As rare as a panda"; Comparing collective bargaining agreements for developing countries; Can internet searches forecast tourism inflows?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2015).

ISBN:

1-78560-145-8

OCLC:

910448350