Informal Practices of Inequality in Recruitment in Finland

Koivunen, Tuija; Ylöstalo, Hanna; Otonkorpi-Lehtoranta, Katri

doi:10.19154/njwls.v5i3.4804

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“…Secondly, the aim was also to avoid the possible confounding effect of age discrimination on receiving a callback, as employers may be more inclined to employ younger than older workers (see e.g. Koivunen et al, 2015).…”

Section: Data Experimental Design and Methodsmentioning

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Does additional work experience moderate ethnic discrimination in the labour market?

Ahmad

2020

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Based on employer responses to 6000 job applications, this article tests whether greater work experience lowers discrimination against job applicants of immigrant origin in the Finnish labour market. It does so by comparing the callbacks received in response to two sets of job applications: applications in which applicants of immigrant background had identical work experience as the majority applicant and those in which they had two years’ more experience than the majority candidate. The article further investigates if additional experience elicits more callbacks in jobs in which higher work experience and a vocational diploma are required and when the vacancies are high-skilled. The findings of this empirical investigation suggest the presence of deep-seated ethnic hierarchies in the Finnish labour market. They clearly demonstrate that immigrants’ chances of securing a job interview offer do not significantly change even when they possess substantially greater work experience than their majority counterparts.

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Section: Data Experimental Design and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does additional work experience moderate ethnic discrimination in the labour market?

Ahmad

2020

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…Drawing on Acker's concept of inequality regimes, Boreus and Mörkenstam (2015) analyzed inequalities between different groups of employees at a housing company in Sweden, and Bryant and Jaworski (2011) examined skills shortages in Australian food and beverage processing and mining industries. In addition, Healy et al (2011) explored the interrelationship of gender and ethnicity in the public sector, and Koivunen et al (2015) examined recruitment and selection processes. Altogether, these studies show how productive the concept of inequality regimes can be for understanding the relationship between the organization of work and the working conditions and health.…”

Section: Bridging Theoretical Dividesmentioning

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Bringing Organizations Back in: Going from Healthy Work to Healthy Workplaces

Bolin

Olofsdotter

2019

NJWLS

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The aim of this article is to discuss how the concept of inequality regimes can contribute to theoretical and methodological advances in occupational health research. We posit the mutual advantages of bringing together feminist intersectional analysis of inequality in working life with studies of working conditions and health. The job demands and control model (JDC) is used as a starting point for the discussion. Reintegration of organizational analysis into studies of working conditions and health is warranted, as organizations influence how working conditions are distributed and individuals are stratified in the labor market. We refer to that development as going from healthy work to healthy workplaces. We discuss how the concept of inequality regimes is open for mixed method analysis and how it can be used as a theoretical framework for unraveling the ways in which inequalities in working conditions and health are (re)created in different types of organizations.

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“…in discussions concerning the de-masculinisation of management and gendered redefinitions of expertise, e.g. in technical skills (Poutanen and Kovalainen, 2017), the constructions of the expert in the workplace have remained for the most part masculine (Poutanen et al, 2016;Tienari et al, 2002;Koivunen et al, 2015).…”

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Gendering expert work and ideal candidacy in Finnish and Estonian job advertisements

Jännäri

Poutanen

Kovalainen

2018

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Purpose This paper aims to analyse the ways the textual materials of job advertisements do the gendering for prospective expert positions and create a space for ambiquity/non-ambiquity in the gender labelling of this expertise. Expert positions are almost always openly announced and are important to organizations because they often lead to higher managerial positions. By gendering the prospective positions, the job advertisements bring forth repertoires strengthening the gendering of work and gendered expert employee positions. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on qualitative textual and visual data of open job advertisements for expert positions. The materials of the study are gathered from open job advertisements in two countries, i.e. Finland and Estonia with rather similar labour market structures in relation to gender positions but differing as regards their gender equality. Findings The analyses show that the gendering of expert work takes place in the job advertisements by rendering subtly gendered articulations, yet allowing for interpretative repertoires appear. The analysis reveals some differences in the formulations of the advertisements for expert jobs in the two countries. It also shows that in general the requirements for an ideal expert candidate are coated with superlatives that are gendered in rather stereotypical ways, and that the ideal candidates for highly expert jobs are extremely flexible and follows the ideal of an adaptable and plastic employee, willing to work their utmost. This paper contributes to the “doing gender” literature by adding an analysis of the textual gendering of ideal candidates for positions of expertise. Research limitations/implications The research materials do not expose all the issues pertinent to questions of the ideal gendered candidate. For instance, questions of ethnicity in relation to the definition of the ideal candidate cannot be studied with the data used for this study. Being an exploratory study, the results do not aim for generalizable results concerning job advertisements for expert positions. Originality/value This paper contributes to the “doing gender” and “gendering” literature by addressing the question of how and in what ways gender is defined and done for an expert positions prior the candidates are chosen to those jobs. It also offers new insights into the global construction of gendered expert jobs advertisements by addressing the topic with data from two countries. It further contributes to understanding the gendered shaping of expertise in the management literature.

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Informal Practices of Inequality in Recruitment in Finland

Abstract: KEY WORDSinformal practices of inequality / recruitment and selection / gender / age / ethnicity

Cited by 28 publications

References 30 publications

Does additional work experience moderate ethnic discrimination in the labour market?

Does additional work experience moderate ethnic discrimination in the labour market?

Bringing Organizations Back in: Going from Healthy Work to Healthy Workplaces

Gendering expert work and ideal candidacy in Finnish and Estonian job advertisements

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