The Impact of Learning on Women's Labour Market Transitions

Abstract: Women play an increasingly important role in the labour market and as wage earners. Moreover, in many countries, young women have outperformed men in terms of educational attainment and qualification. Still, women’s human capital investment does not pay off as it does for men as they are still significantly disadvantaged on the labour market. Based on a qualitative empirical investigation with women in their mid-career, this article investigates the role of learning for women’s labour market participation and career paths. Women’s careers complexly intersect with role expectations, family needs, the career of the partner and anticipation of low returns of educational investment. This is typically reflected in discontinuous employment, part-time work and women’s secondary wage earner position in the family. Furthermore, women qualified at the intermediate skills level are more likely to move horizontally in their career than vertically. Horizontal mobility thereby requires significa

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Research in Comparative and International Education ; 9 (2014) 3 ; 354-369

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2014
Creator
Haasler, Simone

DOI
10.2304/rcie.2014.9.3.354
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-59494-3
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Haasler, Simone

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  • 2014

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