scholarly journals Priority Competencies for Entry-level Interior Designers in the Saudi Labour Market

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Interior Designers

scholarly journals Tracking immigrant professionals' experience in Manitoba's labour market

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Stobbe ◽  
Judith Harris
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Market Definition ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Immigrant Professionals ◽  
Immigration And Settlement ◽  
Definition Of Success ◽  
Definition Of

Our project aims to improve immigrant integration programs by exploring the immigration and settlement process from the perspective of professionals and trades people who are clients of Winnipeg’s Success Skills Centre, an agency that offers employment assistance services to immigrant professionals and skilled workers. We make three observations on the integration experience of immigrant professionals and trades people in the Manitoba labour market. First, recent immigrants to Manitoba through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) have been educated and skilled, yet their labour market participation has often been restricted to general labour and entry-level employment. Second, immigration policy sets a minimum amount of money that an adult immigrant has to bring with him or her, resulting in a demand/supply mismatch in the labour market. Finally, employment has not been a fair or effective stepping-stone to integration in the case of visible minority immigrants. Our research indicates that a strict labour market definition of success fails to capture the expectations and real life goals of new immigrants. Key Words: immigration, professional immigrants, workforce, integration, Manitoba

scholarly journals Tracking immigrant professionals' experience in Manitoba's labour market

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Stobbe ◽  
Judith Harris
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Market Definition ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Immigrant Professionals ◽  
Immigration And Settlement ◽  
Definition Of Success ◽  
Definition Of

Our project aims to improve immigrant integration programs by exploring the immigration and settlement process from the perspective of professionals and trades people who are clients of Winnipeg’s Success Skills Centre, an agency that offers employment assistance services to immigrant professionals and skilled workers. We make three observations on the integration experience of immigrant professionals and trades people in the Manitoba labour market. First, recent immigrants to Manitoba through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) have been educated and skilled, yet their labour market participation has often been restricted to general labour and entry-level employment. Second, immigration policy sets a minimum amount of money that an adult immigrant has to bring with him or her, resulting in a demand/supply mismatch in the labour market. Finally, employment has not been a fair or effective stepping-stone to integration in the case of visible minority immigrants. Our research indicates that a strict labour market definition of success fails to capture the expectations and real life goals of new immigrants. Key Words: immigration, professional immigrants, workforce, integration, Manitoba

Who moves from fixed-term to open-ended contracts? Youth employment transitions in a segmented labour market

2020 ◽  
pp. 000169932092091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kiersztyn
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
Employment Transitions ◽  
Stable Employment

This article explores the career effects of fixed-term employment among Polish youth, taking into account specific legal and institutional arrangements affecting both the incidence of temporary jobs and the chances of moving into more stable employment contracts. The aim of the analysis is twofold. First, it seeks to assess whether temporary contracts serve as a stepping-stone to stable employment or a trap leading to fragmented careers consisting of recurrent short-term jobs. Second, it identifies the factors which increase the chances of successful labour market integration. Both issues are addressed through a quantitative analysis of retrospective career data for a cohort of respondents aged 21–30 from two waves of the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN), 2008 and 2013. Results suggest that temporary employment is not restricted to entry-level jobs and acts as a trap rather than a stepping-stone. In addition, the opportunities for moving from fixed-term to open-ended contracts appear to have deteriorated over the years. However, gaining early on-the-job experience, especially in occupations involving highly complex tasks, may improve the chances of attaining job stability.

scholarly journals Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime

2020 ◽  
pp. 095001702093133
Author(s):  
Barbara Samaluk
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Professional Integration ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Work Transitions ◽  
Professional Licensing ◽  
New Evidence

This article looks at the process of education-to-work transitions in female-dominated welfare professions within the Slovenian post-crisis context marked by a workfarist agenda. It departs from a scholarship that conceptualises precarity as a transitional vulnerability and disaffiliation exacerbated by workfarist policies to explore the contemporary experience of those trying to achieve professional integration under a volatile workfarist regime. The findings reveal a mismatch between established regulations for early career recruitment and professional licensing and actual chances in the labour market to meet these requirements through available workfarist non-standard, entry-level jobs/schemes designed for particular status and/or socio-demographic groups. It gives new evidence that European workfare regimes exacerbate precarity and a novel understanding of state-manufactured precarisation as an intersectional process of marginalisation and discrimination that not only hinders integration into welfare professions, but also downloads the costs of social reproduction on the next generation, causes precarious ageing and widens intersectional differences.

scholarly journals Swimming against the tide? Street-level bureaucrats and the limits to inclusive active labour market programmes in the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 001872672110450
Author(s):  
Mathew Johnson ◽  
Miguel Martínez Lucio ◽  
Damian Grimshaw ◽  
Laura Watt
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
The Uk

Through a dynamic analysis of the interplay between structure and agency, this article explores the factors shaping an inclusive approach to labour market activation for clients who experience multiple barriers to work. While previous studies argue that ‘street-level bureaucrats’ (SLBs), such as advisers and job coaches, have minimal agency to shape the services they deliver, the pilot programme that is the focus of this article allowed SLBs greater discretion to support clients and to use their entrepreneurial skills to build relationships with local employers. However, the unresolved tension between personalisation and swift labour market insertion meant that SLBs often reverted to engrained employability interventions that simply prepare clients to compete for low-wage entry-level jobs. We argue that the ‘policy closure’ around a work-first model of activation in the UK constrains social innovation among SLBs, and limits the freedoms of citizens to navigate their own transitions into paid work.

Economics applicants in the UK labour market

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Drydakis
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate whether job applicants who have obtained a BSc in economics from 15 UK universities face different labour market prospects. The author examines whether university entry standards and Russell Group membership affect UK economics applicants’ occupational access and entry-level annual salaries when unobserved heterogeneities, such as ability, motivation, family characteristics and networks, are minimized. Design/methodology/approach – The author evaluate the research question by recording the job search processes of 90 British economics applicants from randomly selected universities. The key elements of the approach are as follows: third-year undergraduate students apply for early career jobs that are relevant to their studies. Applications are closely matched in terms of age, ethnicity, experience and other core characteristics. Differential treatment in the access to vacancies and entry-level annual salaries per university applicant are systematically measured. Findings – By observing as much information as a firm does, the estimations suggest that both entry standards and Russell Group membership positively affect applicants’ labour market prospects. Although the firms cannot evaluate by themselves whether graduates from highly reputable universities are more or less capable and motivated than graduates from less reputable universities, it appears that the university attended affects firms’ recruitment policies. Importantly, valuable variables that capture firms’ and jobs’ heterogeneities, such as occupational variation, regions, workplace size, establishment age, and the existence of trade unions and human resources, are also considered and provide new results. Practical implications – Understanding the impact of entry standards and university reputation on students’ labour market outcomes is critical to understanding the role of human capital and screening strategies. In addition, obtaining accurate estimates of the payoff of attending a university with a high entry threshold and reputation is of great importance not only to the parents of prospective students who foot tuition bills but also to the students themselves. Furthermore, universities will be interested in the patterns estimated by this study, which will allow recent UK economists to evaluate the current employment environment. In addition, universities should be keen to know how their own graduates have fared in the labour market compared with graduates of other universities. Originality/value – In the current study, the author attempt to solve the problem of firms’ seeing more information than econometricians by looking at an outcome that is determined before firms see any unobservable characteristics. In the current study, ability, motivation, family characteristics and networks cannot affect applicants’ access to vacancies and entry-level salaries. The current study can estimate the effect of university enrolment on applicants’ occupational access and entry-level salaries, controlling for unobserved characteristics that would themselves affect subsequent outcomes in the labour market.

Labour market regulations, changes in working life and the importance of apprenticeship training: A long-term and comparative view on youth transition from school to work

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 945-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Olofsson ◽  
Alexandru Panican
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Working Life ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Apprenticeship Training ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Starting Point

What is the significance of regulations of job contracts and wages when it comes to young people’s access to labour market? This is an issue that has attracted and continues to attract a great deal of interest in both research and politics. Proposals for deregulated employment protection and reduced entry-level pay recur regularly in public debate. In our view it is incomprehensible how sectors of the labour market that are dominated by jobs with low productivity and unstable employment conditions could be expected to offer a permanent solution for the large group of young people who are currently finding it difficult to enter the labour market and reach an acceptable standard of living. Instead, the responses to the challenges facing young people in the labour market could involve training in the form of apprenticeships rather than more insecure jobs and/or lower pay. Essentially, our starting point is that apprenticeship training could provide a more accurate response to the challenges facing young people in working life. This response would not involve the costs in terms of increased social polarisation and increased social risks that may follow in the wake of an increasingly deregulated labour market.

scholarly journals Competent, Connected and Confident: Female Career Success in Call Centres?

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivienne Hunt ◽  
Erling Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Call Centres ◽  
Market Needs

This paper reports on the employment experience of women in New Zealand call centres. It seeks to determine whether women can develop satisfactory career progress and links the findings to the employment relations context in New Zealand. The study, initiated in 2003, reports on six case studies. Contra1y to the prevailing negative portrayal of call centre employment and career paths, our findings demonstrate women are achieving career success in call centres. Management practices can accommodate the different labour market needs of women, and many respondents reported feeling passionate about their jobs. Those working at entry level said they enjoyed meeting people and being part of a workplace, which enhanced their career prospects. Most respondents mentioned the development of skills and confidence, rather than deskilling, call centre processes have enabled many respondents to become competent, connected and confident.

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