How can young people’s employment quality be assessed dynamically?

Abstract

This chapter adopts a dynamic approach to the study of youth labor market integration. It focuses on individual trajectories (i.e., sequences of employment statuses) and considers the timing, order, and length of employment and jobless spells. It uses EU-SILC longitudinal data (2006–2012) for 17 countries to depict youth employment outcomes in two different phases: labor market entry and approximately 5 years after leaving education. The extent to which the experience of a certain trajectory type differs by gender, education level, and across countries is analyzed. Results show that although males and females have similar chances of accessing paid employment rapidly, women’s labor market conditions deteriorate over the following few years in terms of both security and success. Stricter rules on the use of temporary contracts tend to reduce the probability of fragmented trajectories in both phases, narrowing the gender and education gaps with respect to employment and income security.

Examining Employment Quality Among Female Immigrant Trainees in Taiwan

“…Employment quality is a complex, multidimensional concept referring to the overall evaluation of various working conditions at the individual or aggregate (i.e., state or corporate) level (Berloffa et al, 2018). Although the definition and dimensions of employment quality vary across studies, it can be inferred that this concept revolves around laborers' health and well-being and can be a powerful predictor of labor mobility (Almarshad, 2015;Muñnoz de Bustillo et al, 2011).…”

“…As a result, employment quality has become a human resource issue of worldwide interest (Burchell, et al, 2014). An increasing number of research demonstrates that employment quality is crucial for workers' well-being and sustainable career development (Berloffa et al, 2018;Burchell et al, 2014). Employment quality is a complex and multidimensional concept that involves a comprehensive evaluation of the interaction between workers and their working environment in the employment process (Almarshad, 2015;Burchell et al, 2014).…”

“…There is growing recognition that employment quality has a profound impact on the physical and psychological health of immigrant women (Berloffa et al, 2018). Compared with international migration in western developed areas, such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, just a small number of studies has focused on migration in Asia, although there has been a rapidly increasing number of immigrants in the region since the 1990s.…”

“…Although some employment research has focused on immigrant women in Taiwan, such as their work income and barriers to employment (e.g., Hsia, 2009), there is little contextualized and comprehensive understanding of employment quality among immigrant women after their participation in vocational training. Because employment quality is a key factor in immigrant women's well-being and career development (Berloffa et al, 2018), policies that cannot account for the employment quality of female immigrants are unlikely to facilitate their employment outcomes. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the essential factors that affect the employment quality of female immigrants who participate in vocational training in Taiwan.…”

Het effect van opleidingsspecificiteit op school-naar-werk­tran­sities: een trajectaanpak

“…Brzinsky-Fay (2007) pleit daarom voor het gebruik van een trajectaanpak om school-naar-werktransities te analyseren, zodat de hele school-naar-werktransitie tot haar recht komt. Sequentieanalyse is zo'n trajectaanpak die veelvuldig wordt gebruikt om longitudinale fenomenen te bestuderen, waaronder school-naar-werktransities (Aisenbrey & Fasang, 2017;Berloffa, Matteazzi, Mazzolini, Şandor, & Villa, 2019;Fuller & Stecy-Hildebrandt, 2015). Een bijkomend voordeel van sequentieanalyse is dat het onderzoekers toestaat om meerdere aspecten van hetzelfde longitudinale fenomeen tegelijkertijd te bestuderen, met behulp van multichannel sequentieanalyse.…”