Perceived employability among foreign-born employees, before and during crisis

Wallinder, Ylva

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“…Finally, individuals with a migrant background often find it difficult to get a job and sometimes feel discriminated against, potentially resulting in lower levels of perceived employability (Berglund and Wallinder, 2015). Surprisingly, however, Wallinder (2018) detects a positive effect of being born in a foreign country on the subjective assessment of re-employment prospects.…”

Section: Individual-level Determinants Of Perceived Employabilitymentioning

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Learning to keep the faith? Further education and perceived employability among young unemployed

Mühlböck

Steiber

Kittel

2020

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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To keep up job search motivation and maintain re-employment chances, it is important that unemployed individuals do not stop believing in their ability to (re)gain satisfying employment. This article examines whether further education during unemployment has a positive effect on perceived employability (i.e. the subjective assessment of one’s chances to obtain the desired job), based on a panel survey of unemployed young adults in Austria. The article finds that educational activities – either on own initiative or as part of an active labor market program – indeed help to sustain or even increase perceived employability. However, only for long-term programs do the effects persist beyond the duration of the activity. This study thus identifies substantial psychological side effects of active labor market policies involving further education, which could be used to increase actual employability.

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Section: Individual-level Determinants Of Perceived Employabilitymentioning

confidence: 85%

Learning to keep the faith? Further education and perceived employability among young unemployed

Mühlböck

Steiber

Kittel

2020

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…Job insecurity refers to individuals' perception of precariousness and the instability of their job (Sverke et al, 2002), whereas a layoff means a workforce reduction (Brockner, 1992). While perceived employability refers to individuals' subjective evaluations of how easily they can find a job in the labor market and their job prospects (Wallinder, 2021;De Cuyper and De Witte, 2010). The COVID-19 crisis is an extraordinary disruptive event that triggered a disruptive events chain (Roulet and Bothello, 2022), i.e.…”

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Workforce's crisis-induced career shock, career preferences, job insecurity, layoff and perceived employability: examining variations based on gender, education level and ethnic origin

Hamouche

Kammogne

Merkouche

2023

HESWBL

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PurposeThe COVID-19 crisis caused a high level of job insecurity, layoff and low employment opportunities. It generated a worldwide shock, which might have a long-lasting effect on individuals' careers. Changes might occur in terms of individuals’ career choices, objectives, perception of career success and preferences in terms of industries and work arrangements. This study aims to examine crisis-induced career shock among the workforce, which might be translated into changes or doubts related to career choices, objectives and perception of career success, and to analyze individuals' preferences in terms of industries and work arrangements. It focuses mainly on investigating variations among the workforce, based on gender, education level and ethnic origin. These variations are also examined regarding job insecurity, layoff and perceived employability.Design/methodology/approachFrequency counts, percentages, mean ranking, independent t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for a sample of 317 workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Three research questions were developed and examined, which are: (1) is there a variation in the workforce, based on gender, education level and ethnic origin concerning crisis-induced career shock (specifically changes related to career choices, objectives and career success? (2) Is there a variation among the workforce related to career preference per industry and work arrangement? If yes, is there a difference in the workforce-based gender, education level and ethnic origin? And (3) is there a variation in the workforce, based on gender, education level and ethnic origin concerning job insecurity, layoff and perceived employability?FindingsThe findings revealed that career shock was significantly higher among pre-university respondents (specifically, doubts about career choices and perceived career success). As for career preferences per industry, e-business, media and marketing had significant values for all respondents, with e-business as the top-rated choice except for Emiratis who rated it as their third choice. Education was the choice of both men and women. The choices related to other industries (e.g. Healthcare, information, communication technology, etc.) and work arrangements (telework) varied significantly based on gender, education and ethnic origin. Men seem to worry more than women about losing their job as well as Emiratis compared to expatriates, and university-level respondents compared to pre-university.Practical implicationsThis study contributes to highlighting variations related to career shock and career preferences per industry among the workforce based on gender, education level and ethnic origin. This can help organizations in these industries to have a portrait of the situation in the employment market to be able to develop relevant interventions. This research provides insights for managers and HRM practitioners.Originality/valueThis study contributes to expanding research on career and career shocks in a context of a crisis. It responded to authors who called for more research about career shocks, as well as their implication for specific target groups, by examining variations based on gender, education level and ethnic origin.

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The Economic Return to Labour Market Experience of Immigrants in Sweden

Tibajev

2023

Soc Indic Res

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This study focuses on the value that employers assign to immigrants’ labour market experience, from both before and after immigration, using a surveyed representative sample of the Swedish immigrant and native populations. A novel feature of the survey is that it contains a measure of immigrants’ actual years of labour market experience, including about work before immigration. Previous research has, in contrast, relied on so-called potential measures, risking bias in the analyses. For immigrants, results show that only pre-immigration labour market experience from the Nordic countries has a positive return. Results also show that return to labour market experience after immigration does not depend on whether the individual acquired Sweden-specific human capital before or with the entry into the labour market. Natives and immigrants, as well as immigrants with and without schooling or upbringing in Sweden, have parallel wage trajectories across labour market experience years, with immigrants being at a stable disadvantage. This is interpreted to be caused by immigrants being sorted into jobs with worse opportunities to acquire new human capital compared with natives.

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Perceived employability among foreign-born employees, before and during crisis

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Learning to keep the faith? Further education and perceived employability among young unemployed

Learning to keep the faith? Further education and perceived employability among young unemployed

Workforce's crisis-induced career shock, career preferences, job insecurity, layoff and perceived employability: examining variations based on gender, education level and ethnic origin

The Economic Return to Labour Market Experience of Immigrants in Sweden

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