scholarly journals No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Pages ◽  
Marco Stampini
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Labor Market Segmentation ◽  
The Relationship

International Segmentation of Labor

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Bauder
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Labor Market Segmentation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Means Of Production

The relationship between migration and labor markets can be approached from different conceptual and philosophical angles. In this chapter, I draw on labor market segmentation theory to examine how the international mobility of workers interlinks with the international segmentation of labor. In addition, I highlight two aspects of this relationship that have been sidelined in the existing literature but that are important to understanding how this relationship works. The first aspect is the notion of citizenship. Although this notion has received considerable attention in the social sciences in recent years, it has been neglected as a driving force of the segmentation of labor. The second aspect is the cultural representation of migrating populations and workers, which contributes vitally to the regulation of labor markets. The structure of this chapter follows the intention to convey a particular theoretical perspective and to highlight particular aspects of this perspective. First, I present segmentation theory as an entry point into a discussion of the relationship between international migration and labor market regulation. Second, I introduce the notion of citizenship to this discussion. Third, I present cultural representations as critical components in the international segmentation of labor markets. To explain labor market segmentation theory one may begin with Karl Marx. Marx ([1867] 2001) called labor “variable capital” and the means of production “constant capital.” Labor is variable because workers can be hired and fired in response to business and seasonal cycles. The means of production, on the other hand, are constant because they constitute a fixed investment and stay idle in periods of economic slowdown. Segmentation theory begins with the premise that the idleness of machinery and other fixed investments can be prevented or reduced by dividing production into two distinct segments. The primary segment is capital-intensive; high levels of technology ensure the efficient use of the workforce. In times of economic contraction, this primary sector keeps operating to satisfy the basic demand that still exists for products. The secondary segment, on the other hand, is labor-intensive, with only minimal investments in machinery and technology.

scholarly journals The Fragility of Women’s Work Trajectories in Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Rosario Undurraga ◽  
Jóna Gunnarsson
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Women Professionals ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Labor Market Segmentation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Chilean Women

How are the work trajectories of Chilean women? This qualitative study analyzes the female work trajectories through interviews and biograms in a sample of 50 Chilean women, professionals and non-professionals, between the ages of 24 and 88. The article proposes an original typology of female work trajectories and relates type of work trajectory with Piore’s theory of labor market segmentation. The paper discusses the challenges and weaknesses of the Chilean women’s labor outcome and presents recent data to extrapolate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable work trajectories. It considers the type of State and possible actions to achieve greater welfare and social development regarding gender equality.

LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SELECTED THREADS OF THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMY. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 570 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Marek Bednarski
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Labor Market Segmentation

The article attempts to explain the processes of labor market segmentation from the perspective of selected theories included in the New Institutional Economy trend. Finally, the conclusions formulated earlier are confronted with empirical research on segmentation in Polish conditions

Intersegment and Racial Differences in Nonemployment Mobility

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Waddoups ◽  
Djeto Assane
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Labor Market Segmentation ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Theoretical Category

This paper is an exploration of intersegment and racial differences in job-leaving experience, which links ideas found in mobility studies of the labor market segmentation school and the literature which describes unemployment as a dynamic process. Findings suggest that there are significant differences in nonemployment mobility patterns across the segment structure, lending support to researchers who view the labor market as segmented. In addition, after controlling for segmentation, racial differences in nonemployment mobility are revealed, suggesting that race, too, is an important theoretical category that cannot be ignored.

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