Perceptions of employability among London’s low-paid: ‘Self-determination’ or ethnicity?

Artikel

We investigate how ethnicity, gender and other characteristics affect low-paid workers’ perceptions of their employability in London’s labour market, examining self-efficacy, ethnic and dual labour market theories. We find that perceptions vary considerably, both between genders and ethnicities and in the extent to which they are ‘justified’ by human capital attributes. Optimism varies between genders and ethnic groups but individuals’ perceptions vary to an even greater extent within genders and ethnic groups. Hence, individual-level ‘self-determination’ explanations of these perceptions appear to have greatest explanatory power in this specific context though ethnic theories also have utility.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Economic and Industrial Democracy ; ISSN: 1461-7099 ; Volume: 39 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 109-130 ; Thousand Oaks: Sage

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Value of Life; Forgone Income ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy ; Labor Discrimination ; Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition
• Thema: Diversity ; dual labour market ; employability ; human capital ; labour economy

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Croucher, Richard ; Ramakrishnan, Sumeetra ; Rizov, Marian ; Benzinger, Diana
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Sage ; ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• (wo): Thousand Oaks
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1177/0143831X15609672
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/182575
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ