Low-Paid but Satisfied? How Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Workers in Low-Wage Jobs Make Sense of Their Wages

Markova, Ekaterina L.; Sardadvar, Karin; Poggi, Agostino; Villosio, Claudia

doi:10.1057/9781137461087_10

Hard Work in New Jobs 2015

DOI: 10.1057/9781137461087_10

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Low-Paid but Satisfied? How Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Workers in Low-Wage Jobs Make Sense of Their Wages

Ekaterina L. Markova¹,

Karin Sardadvar²,

Agostino Poggi³

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“… 3 For instance, Markova et al (2015) present qualitative case studies from three different European countries and sectors which offer low-wage jobs find clear adaptation patterns. More specifically, they show that although migrants, immigrants, and people from ethnic minorities are in low-paid jobs they are satisfied with their job and find their wages adequate in comparison to the wage level in their countries of origin. …”

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Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?

Boyadjieva

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2022

European Educational Research Journal

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The article synthesizes ideas from the capability approach, the embeddedness approach, and Nancy Fraser’s three-dimensional scale of justice and develops a theoretical framework for understanding subjective well-being (SWB) as a positive functioning. It also proposes an instrument for measuring SWB and its relationship with participation in non-formal adult education. Using data from the European Social Survey, carried out in 2012, for 24 European countries and applying multilevel linear models for the analysis, the study finds evidence for a positive association between participation in non-formal adult education and SWB. The results show that differences in the SWB among people who have participated in non-formal adult education and those who have not are higher for those who have no higher education and are unemployed than for those who have higher education and paid work. This study also reveals that when people live in countries with better economic and democratic development and a more individualistic culture, the differences in their SWB by participating in non-formal adult education are smaller than when they live in countries with worse economic and democratic development and a more collectivistic culture.

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Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?

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European Educational Research Journal

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Job Quality Gaps Between Migrant and Native Platform Workers: Evidence From Poland

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Lewandowski,

Kaczmarczyk

2024

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The platform economy has grown worldwide, opening labour markets but raising concerns about precariousness. Using a tailored, quantitative survey in Poland, this article studies taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality, focusing on the gaps between natives and migrants. Migrants' job quality is noticeably lower regarding contractual terms of employment, working hours, work–life balance, multidimensional deprivation and job satisfaction. Migrants who started a platform job immediately after arriving in Poland are particularly deprived. They also cluster on taxi platforms, which offer inferior working conditions compared to delivery platforms. The platform economy can be an arrival infrastructure for migrants. However, in New Immigration Destinations such as Poland, where the ethnic economy is underdeveloped and institutional support for migrants is weak, poor working conditions on platforms can exacerbate migrants' labour market vulnerabilities and hinder mobility to better jobs, as platforms often provide limited opportunities for skill development.

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Exploring the Link Between the Hazards and Value of Work, and Overcoming Risk for Community-Based Health Interventions for Immigrant Latinx Low-Wage Workers

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Few studies integrate work and immigration as intersecting social determinants of health. We synthesize data from 12 focus groups ( N = 97) originating from two separate community-engaged studies that originally centered on exploring barriers to health and hazards of work among immigrant Latinx women and men to explore the role of work in their overall health and well-being. The three major interrelated themes we drew from this research—hazards of work, value of work, and building agency to overcome risk—provide insights that can help to reframe and begin to operationalize how community-based health promotion practice might better incorporate workplace issues for Latinx low-wage workers. The value of work, and its subtheme, pride in performing well specifically, could be engaged by workers to actively change conditions for themselves and others. We discuss findings in light of previous occupational health research and implications for community-based intervention design and practice.

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Low-Paid but Satisfied? How Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Workers in Low-Wage Jobs Make Sense of Their Wages

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Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?

Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?

Job Quality Gaps Between Migrant and Native Platform Workers: Evidence From Poland

Exploring the Link Between the Hazards and Value of Work, and Overcoming Risk for Community-Based Health Interventions for Immigrant Latinx Low-Wage Workers

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