Generational Determinants on the Employment Choice in Italy

2011 ◽  
pp. 339-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Quintano ◽  
Rosalia Castellano ◽  
Gennaro Punzo
Keyword(s):  
Employment Choice

Entrepreneurial mindset and the role of universities as strategic drivers of entrepreneurship

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fauzia Jabeen ◽  
Mohd. Nishat Faisal ◽  
Marios I. Katsioloudes
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employment Choice ◽  
Strategic Factors ◽  
Modelling Methodology ◽  
The Government

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the factors that influence the mindset of youth in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in choosing entrepreneurship as their future employment. It also suggests the pathway to improve the role of the universities as strategic drivers in inducing an entrepreneurial mindset. Design/methodology/approach An exhaustive literature review of extant research followed by an exploratory study was conducted. Furthermore, to understand factors influencing the role of universities, interpretive structural modelling methodology is applied to evolve a hierarchy-based relationship among the strategic factors. Findings The results of empirical research suggest that young people in the UAE rank entrepreneurship as their first employment choice. However, most of them have not attended any formal entrepreneurship-related course in school or in college. The study also suggests that individual and environmental factors influence the entrepreneurial mindset of both males and females in the UAE. The structural model developed in the study indicates that to give an impetus to the entrepreneurial mindset, the government must create a supporting environment with UAE universities playing the role of a catalyst. Practical implications Professional entrepreneurship instruction is seen as a strategic tool to stimulate financial and societal growth. The results could provide insights for both entrepreneurship educators and policymakers and will boost their commitment to promote the entrepreneurial mindset within UAE society by enhancing and developing traits associated with entrepreneurial success. The results support recognition of the factors that induce educational programmes and economic incentives targeted at the development of sustainable entrepreneurial culture and ventures in the UAE. Originality/value The study is an effort to highlight the role of higher education in envisaging and cultivating entrepreneurs in a fast-growing developing country through a survey and a hierarchy-based model.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Interest, Vision and the Self-employment Choice Decision in UK Regions

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 1075-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Ashcroft ◽  
Darryl Holden ◽  
Kenneth Low
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Employment Choice ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Choice Decision

Practice nurses want employment choice

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 7-7
Author(s):  
Adele Waters
Keyword(s):  
Practice Nurses ◽  
Employment Choice

scholarly journals Labour Market and Self-Employment: The Israeli Case

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-108
Author(s):  
Iyad Snunu
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Employment Choice ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The One

Abstract The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the labour market from the perspective of self-employment. It investigates the phenomenon of this form of employment from several aspects: on the one hand, it examines the factors influencing the choice of Israelis to be self-employed among Arabs and Jews in Israel, and, on the other hand, it examines the extent to which human capital and family background characteristics determine the employment choice. The main aim of the paper is to characterize the phenomenon of self-employment in the labour market. By using 2008 data Israel Census, hypotheses concerning the effect of demographical variables on self-employment are formulated and tested, using logistic regression. The results support the research hypotheses, and the most notable predictors of self-employment are discussed. Thus, we conclude that family background, gender, age, number of children and an interaction between nationality and occupation are the most significant predictors of self-employment. Many factors affect the self-employment status of citizens of Israel, with the single strongest predictor being gender – males in Israel are more likely to be self-employed. Also, more urbanized areas such as Tel-Aviv and the Centre, have higher self-employment rate than less populated areas such as the South.

Perspectives of people with intellectual disability about open, sheltered and social enterprise employment

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariella Meltzer ◽  
Rosemary Kayess ◽  
Shona Bates
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Alternative Employment ◽  
Employment Choice ◽  
Business Market ◽  
Disability Employment ◽  
Employment Choices

Purpose People with intellectual disability have a low rate of employment in Australia and internationally. Their low employment rate is set within a context of limited employment choices. Further, the most common types of work currently undertaken by people with intellectual disability – open and sheltered employment – have limitations and may not be suitable for everyone. Expanding the employment choices available represents an important way forward, but evidence is needed to guide the expansion. This paper aims to contribute to the evidence required by comparing people with intellectual disability’s experience and outcomes in open and sheltered employment to their experience and outcomes working in social enterprises, which is becoming an important alternative employment option for this group. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the qualitative accounts of 51 people with intellectual disability to compare experiences and outcomes in open, sheltered and social enterprise employment in Australia. Findings The paper finds that social enterprises combine some of the benefits of open and sheltered employment and thus expand employment choice. However, the level of business/market development and opportunities for employment in social enterprises are currently limited and require further development and scale to enable social enterprises to be an option for more people with intellectual disability. Policy implications are drawn out for expanding employment choice, in particular through social enterprise employment, for people with intellectual disability. Originality/value The paper offers the first three-way comparison of open, sheltered and social enterprise employment for people with intellectual disability, contributing to both the disability employment and social enterprise literature.

EMPLOYMENT CHOICE AND OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE IN TRANSITIONAL CHINA

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (02) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
YULING CUI ◽  
DAEHOON NAHM ◽  
MASSIMILIANO TANI
Keyword(s):  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Section Data ◽  
Employment Choice ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
High Level ◽  
Pension Benefits ◽  
Transitional China ◽  
Employment Choices ◽  
Biased Estimates

This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account of the unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of employer. Using pooled cross-section data for 1995 and 2002, the results indicate that the decisions for migration and the choice of employment are related, suggesting that estimating employment choices without considering migration status leads to biased estimates. We find that both higher paid wages and broader pension benefits are major determinants of employment choice. Of these, pension benefits have a larger impact than high-level wages in increasing the employment probability for either type of enterprise.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Family Background on Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Empirical Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria-Ana Georgescu ◽  
Emilia Herman
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Employment Choice ◽  
The Family ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Real Challenge

In the current economic and social environment, a real challenge for youth is the acquisition and development of the relevant skills in entrepreneurship in order to consider entrepreneurship as a desirable employment choice. Given this aspect, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the main factors influencing students’ entrepreneurial intentions, paying particular attention to their entrepreneurial family background. Additionally, the paper aims to explore the effect of entrepreneurial family background on the relationship between effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. We conducted a study where results were based on the outcomes of a survey among Romanian high school and university students in the final year (N = 617). Our four main hypotheses were tested through independent samples t-tests, correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The findings highlighted that the students with an entrepreneurial family background reported a higher entrepreneurial intention than those without such a background. The variables that positively influenced the entrepreneurial intentions of the students were entrepreneurial family background, effectiveness of entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial personality traits. Furthermore, this entrepreneurial family background negatively moderated the relationship between effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. For this reason, emphasis should be placed on both formal and informal entrepreneurial education, which will increase the propensity of young people to choose an entrepreneurial career.

Educational debt and intended employment choice among dental school seniors

2014 ◽  
Vol 145 (5) ◽  
pp. 428-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Wanchek ◽  
Sean Nicholson ◽  
Marko Vujicic ◽  
Adriana Menezes ◽  
Anthony Ziebert
Keyword(s):  
Dental School ◽  
Employment Choice ◽  
Educational Debt
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