Decent work in Portugal: Context, conceptualization, and assessment

Ferreira, Joaquim Armando; Haase, Richard F.; Santos, Eduardo J. R.; Rabaça, José A.; Figueiredo, Lara; Hemami, Hida G.; Almeida, Lídia M.

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2019.01.009

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“…This finding is also concerning to the extent that it affirms continued inequalities in occupational prestige across generations in Portugal and other contexts. Equity in the access to quality childhood education—and measures to attain decent work—should therefore be a priority for the country (Ferreira et al, 2019; Peila‐Shuster, 2018).…”

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“…Collaboration among career counselors, researchers, and scientific and professional associations could help to establish networks and stimulate organizations' acknowledgment of employees' family roles. Children's career development would benefit from efforts to consider career processes in public policies, to improve equity in the access to quality childcare that includes concerted efforts to engage children in career exploration, to minimize social stereotypes in the mass media and school textbooks, and to support parents in obtaining decent work (Ferreira et al, 2019; Fulcher & Coyle, 2011; Luke & Redekop, 2014; Peila‐Shuster, 2018).…”

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“…Portugal suffered through and continues to recover from an economic crisis with lasting effects. Long‐term unemployment and precarious jobs continue to be a common occurrence, and many jobs offer salaries that are insufficient to meet basic needs, which put families and children at risk of economic distress (Ferreira et al, 2019; OECD, 2019). Portugal's economic crisis has negatively affected family dynamics and children's behavioral regulation.…”

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Children's Career Expectations and Parents' Jobs: Intergenerational (Dis)continuities

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Children develop career expectations as they increase self‐knowledge and perceive societal affordances and barriers to life roles. Parents are powerful agents in the socialization of children to work, transmitting occupational concepts that influence children's career development. The authors used Gottfredson's (1981) and Holland's (1973) theories to test associations between children's career expectations and parents' jobs in terms of gender, prestige, and interest typology among same‐sex and cross‐sex child‐parent dyads. Data were collected from 185 Portuguese children (51.4% boys, 48.6% girls; Mage = 10.41 years) from 2‐parent families. Children reported their parents' jobs and shared personal career expectations. Correlation and linear regression results indicated that fathers' male‐dominated jobs put boys at risk of gender‐based circumscription of career expectations. An intergenerational cycle of prestige inequalities was also evidenced, although parents seemed to support children's exploration of various interest areas. Future research could explore these relationships across family structures. Practice should foster children's in‐breadth career exploration and engage parents as key partners.

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“…Decent work plays a central role in the model, and it has five components: safe working conditions, access to health care, sufficient compensation, free time and rest during the work week, and values match between working place and family [8]. Previous studies have tested the model in various countries, such as Brazil [17], South Korea [18], Switzerland [19], UK [20], Italy [21], Turkey [22], Portugal [23], and China [9], and in various sorts of respondents, such as low-income employees [24], people who suffer from Chiari malformation [25], racially and ethnically diverse employees [10], and emerging adults [11].…”

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Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Decent Work Perception with Chinese Nursing College Students

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Drawing on the psychology of working theory (PWT), the present study was performed to evaluate the predictor session of the PWT and career exploration behavior with a sample of Chinese nursing college students from diverse backgrounds. The research employed a cross-sectional research design and 854 nursing students were recruited from one health vocational college situated in Northwest China. Structural equation modeling was utilized to conduct the analysis; confirmatory factor analysis and structural model testing were performed accordingly. Moreover, mediation analysis that used bias-corrected percentile bootstrapping method and moderation analysis were carried out in accordance. Overall, most of the proposed direct paths were significant, but the mediation results were mixed. Proactive personality simply moderated the impact of economic constraints on career adaptability. The results suggest that PWT is applicable to nursing college students and the model is generally supported in the Chinese context. It is the first empirical work that used this model among nursing college students and future decent work perceptions contributed another important antecedent of career exploration behavior. The practical implications based on these findings are provided as well.

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“…In its origins, decent work was described in terms of "opportunities for both women and men to have decent and productive work in conditions of freedom and equity, security, and human dignity" [1]. The ILO states that decent work makes both an important contribution to sustainable development and becomes an important goal in itself since it is considered a fundamental human right [2]. Currently, decent work is a priority for policy-makers and for society as a whole as a result of globalization processes and the economic recession of the last decade, which have produced dramatic changes in the labor market structure in Europe, generating an increase in unemployment, underemployment, precarious work, and labor inequality.…”

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Decent Work as Determinant of Work Engagement on Dependent Self-Employed

2019

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This article analyzes with a holistic and systematic approach the state of working conditions in self-dependent workers, as well as their effects on workers’ work engagement. For this, a distinction was made between the self-employed, non-dependent self-employed, and wage earners. The sample integrated 42,963 workers who were surveyed, of which 0.03% were dependent self-employed, 13.73% were non-dependent self-employed, and 82.32% were wage earners. The results have broadly confirmed the research purposes and they established that ensuring work engagement is the key to sustainability, growth, and success for workers.

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Decent work in Portugal: Context, conceptualization, and assessment

Cited by 78 publications

References 32 publications

Children's Career Expectations and Parents' Jobs: Intergenerational (Dis)continuities

Children's Career Expectations and Parents' Jobs: Intergenerational (Dis)continuities

Examining Predictors and Outcomes of Decent Work Perception with Chinese Nursing College Students

Decent Work as Determinant of Work Engagement on Dependent Self-Employed

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