Young, successful, precarious? Precariousness at the entry stage of employment careers in Germany

Stuth, Stefan; Jahn, Kerstin

doi:10.1080/13676261.2019.1636945

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“…Records of data for access to resources and economics are crucial to ensure that both current unemployment and work experience at university are recognized by employers for reference (Roberts and Zhen, 2017). According to Stuth and Jahn (2020), lack of work experience is one of the major obstacles that prevent young people from getting a job. In this regard, there is a stream of youths leaving their studies to seek work experience.…”

Section: Education Training and Work Experiencementioning

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Determining Unemployment Factors Among Job Seeking Youth in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Shakur¹,

Sa'at²,

Aziz³

et al. 2020

JAFEB

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This study examines factors of unemployment and career path challenges commonly faced by youth in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The study employed a quantitative approach which involved a total of 1,083 youths in Kelantan, Pahang and Terengganu selected at random. Descriptive and multiple regression analysis (OLS) methods were used to analyze demographic distribution of youth in determining factors influencing unemployment among them. The results reveal that the majority of youth respondents in the East Coast states of Malaysia are still unemployed and actively seeking employment. Demographic profiles are based on the survey results, youths seeking employment with 36 per cent distribution in Kelantan, 34 per cent in Pahang, and 30 per cent in Terengganu. Majority of the respondents were youths aged 20 to 24 years with a 40.9 percent percentage. The findings show that there are differences in factors affecting youth unemployment in the three states of East Coast, Malaysia. For Kelantan (age, experience, work mobility, marital status), Pahang (experience, marital status) and Terengganu (experience, gender, marital status, training). This study suggests that youths should be wise in preparing for their career by choosing the right career as well as doing side jobs to gain experience before they pursue for a real job.

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Section: Education Training and Work Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Determining Unemployment Factors Among Job Seeking Youth in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Shakur¹,

Sa'at²,

Aziz³

et al. 2020

JAFEB

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“…Of concern, more than half of the participants in our study reported that their workplace support needs were unmet. Our findings provide evidence that young workers with rheumatic disease may start their career in work environments where supports are less accessible (18,35). Results can be explained by Canadian labor market analyses, which show that, when compared to older age groups, young adults are more likely to be employed precariously and in jobs where formal accommodations and extended health benefits are less likely to be provided (20,36).…”

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Rheumatic Disease Disclosure at the Early Career Phase and Its Impact on the Relationship Between Workplace Supports and Presenteeism

Jetha

Tucker

Kristman

et al. 2022

Arthritis Care & Research

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Objective Young adults with rheumatic disease face challenges communicating health needs, accessing workplace support, and sustaining productivity. Our objective was to examine whether disclosure modifies the relationship between workplace support and presenteeism. Methods An online survey was administered to Canadian young adults with rheumatic disease and asked about presenteeism (0 = health had no effect on work; 10 = health completely prevented working), workplace support need, availability, and use and whether health details were disclosed to an immediate supervisor. A multivariable robust linear regression model was conducted and stratified by those who did and did not disclose the details of their health to their supervisor. Results A total of 306 participants completed the survey with a mean ± SD presenteeism score of 4.89 ± 2.65. More than 70% disclosed health details to their supervisor; those who disclosed reported greater presenteeism (mean ± SD 5.2 ± 2.5) when compared to those who did not disclose (mean ± SD 4.2 ± 2.61). Greater disease severity was associated with disclosure. Half of the participants reported unmet workplace support needs (53%), 32% reported that their workplace support needs were met, and 15% reported exceeded workplace support needs. The relationship between presenteeism and workplace support needs was modified by disclosure. For participants who disclosed, workplace support needs that were unmet (β = 1.59 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.75, 2.43]) and that were met (β = 1.25 [95% CI 0.39, 2.11]) were associated with greater presenteeism when compared to those with exceeded workplace support needs. Conclusion To address presenteeism, strategies should be developed for young adults with rheumatic disease to foster access to available workplace supports and to navigate disclosure decisions.

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“…While precarious living and working conditions used to be the challenge for the poor, Isabel Lorey (2015) argues that precarity has become a 'normal' experience (p. 63). Especially for young people who aspires to make a creative career, braving a precarious start, if not a precarious life, seems to be a prerequisite (Stuth & Jahn, 2019). As encapsulated in the terms 'aspirational labour', 'hope labourer' and the likes, many young creative workers are prepared to negotiate 'the temporal relationship between present experience and future aspirations' and 'shifts costs and risks' in order to maintain their aspirations and hopes of a better career and a better future (Kuehn & Corrigan, 2013, p. 11).…”

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No longer aspirational: A case study of young creative workers in Hong Kong who quit

Wong¹,

Chow²

2020

Global Media and China

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While many young creative workers are braving precaritization presumably with the drive of aspiration, this article focuses on the other end of their career path: disillusionment. Informed by the experiences of five self-proclaimed wenyi qingnian – loosely translated as cultural youth – in Hong Kong, this article tracks their aspirations which kept them hoping and going till they were disillusioned and decided to quit. Drawing together two lines of research – on precarity and on failure – our study fills in a gap of the scholarship on creative work and workers that is dominated by concerns with precarity and related abuses. We attend not only to the abuse, exploitation and precarity of creative work, but to a more open understanding of how and why young creative practitioners leave. We do so with an unusual deployment of longitudinal inquiry that does not only concern itself with struggles of creative workers but also with the termination of such struggles. We observe four dimensions of failure: their increasingly precarious way of life; their disillusionment with creativity; the urgency posed by their ‘ageing’; and the specific local political situation. As transpired, only one factor is immediately related to precarity. This article argues to include ‘failure’ as a significant phase of creative work, that warrants further investigation and may open up more understanding on precarity, or in general, creative work and workers. While precarity is dominantly defined in economic and market-related terms – with good reasons – we see the need to loosen it up to acknowledge more aspects of precarity and experiences of creative work. This article is part of the Special Issue Creative Labour in East Asia.

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Young, successful, precarious? Precariousness at the entry stage of employment careers in Germany

Cited by 27 publications

References 39 publications

Determining Unemployment Factors Among Job Seeking Youth in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Determining Unemployment Factors Among Job Seeking Youth in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Rheumatic Disease Disclosure at the Early Career Phase and Its Impact on the Relationship Between Workplace Supports and Presenteeism

No longer aspirational: A case study of young creative workers in Hong Kong who quit

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