A Capability Approach to Cultural Diversity in School-to-Work Transitions: Amartya Sen and Young Adults’ Diversely Different Education and Work Communities

2012 ◽  
pp. 113-127
Author(s):  
Roberta Harreveld ◽  
Michael Singh ◽  
Bingyi Li
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Work Transitions

scholarly journals Health inequalities during school-to-work transitions among young adults: Mapping the evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
P Matos Fialho ◽  
N Dragano ◽  
M Reuter ◽  
M I Metzendorf ◽  
B Richter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Sensitive Period ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Work Transitions ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Background School-to-work transition is a sensitive period that can have a substantial impact on health over the life course. Previous studies suggest pronounced health inequalities during this period but little is known about the determinants at the individual, meso- and macro-levels. We aim to further elucidate possible health inequalities during school-to-work transitions with a focus on multilevel determinants, e.g. evidence on potential effects of contextual and compositional factors of specific institutions involved. Methods We are currently conducting a scoping review (funded by the German Research Foundation) to map the evidence on the above mentioned topic among young adults (aged 16-24 years), following the methodological framework proposed by Arksey and ÓMalley and PRISMA. The literature search was performed in Ovid MEDLINE, Web of Science, ILO and NIOSH, using sensitive search strategy developed by text-analysis. Only articles published between January 2000 - February 2020 and written in English or German are considered. The selection process is conducted following a two-step approach:1) screening of titles and abstracts 2) screening of full-texts by two independent reviewers. Any discrepancies in the selection process are resolved by a third researcher. Preliminary Results Following the five stages of the methodological framework, the scoping review is currently in stage 3 (study selection-screening phase). We found 25,069 potentially relevant articles in our primary search. 15,508 articles remained after the duplicates were removed. Up to now, 8,825 papers were screened of which 7,629 were excluded and 1,176 included which qualified for full-text reading. Complete results of the scoping review will be presented at the conference. Conclusions This scoping review will improve our knowledge about the emergence and development of health inequalities during school-to-work transitions by examining health of individuals in different institutional contexts. Key messages Improving our knowledge of health inequalities during school-to-work transitions. the role of determinants at the individual, meso- and macro-levels during this stage will also be examined.

Young Adult Transnational School- to-Work Transitions in the Context of Work Migration in Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 423-440
Author(s):  
Oana Negru-Subtirica
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
School To Work ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Work Transitions ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
Work First

Today, an increasing number of young adults’ first systematic work experiences occur beyond the boundaries of their homelands, leading to transnational school-to-work transitions. Work migration trends in the past decades indicate that more young adults choose or are forced to live their first systematic work experiences in a new country. This chapter explores transnational school-to-work transitions in the European context in emerging adults who migrate to find work. First, the author analyzes the dynamics of transnational school-to-work transitions for European emerging adults who have completed extensive schooling (university graduates). Next, the author examines how educational and labor market factors may influence the development of meanings of work and of work identities in these young adults. Lastly, the author details implications for educational and occupational policies targeting immigrant young adults.

scholarly journals The Social and Solidarity Economy: An Opportunity for Young Women’s Work Transitions

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882098605
Author(s):  
Roger Soler-i-Martí ◽  
Andreu Camprubí Trepat ◽  
Ester Oliveras ◽  
Mireia Sierra Andrés
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Feminist Economics ◽  
Work Transitions ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

This article analyses to what extent the social and solidarity economy (SSE), the aim of which is to prioritize people’s needs and well-being, can offer young people education-to-work transitions conditions and opportunities which are different from those in the conventional economy. The very nature of SSE means that it is especially suitable for challenging gender inequality and proves to be exceptionally useful for testing feminist economics. Against a backdrop of economic crisis, SSE has shown greater resilience when compared to other sectors, although it is still not widespread. To examine how SSE can improve young women’s experiences and labour trajectories, this article analyses working conditions, job satisfaction and gender roles in school-to-work transitions of young women in SSE in Catalonia. Results show that the collective and value-driven nature of SSE entails a specific awareness and commitment that empower young women’s transitions experiences and expectations.

scholarly journals The capabilities and human rights of high performance athletes

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Adams ◽  
Emma Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Precise Analysis ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Capability Approach

High performance athletes participate and function in sports systems where exploitative behaviours may become manifest. These behaviours potentially violate an individual athlete’s human rights. Using the Capability Approach first outlined by Amartya Sen the paper details how a more precise analysis of human rights, in the context of high performance sport, may be achieved. Using in-depth narrative accounts from high performance athletes, data illustrate how athlete maltreatment is related to individual capabilities and functionings: the loss of individual freedoms infringes accepted notions of human rights. The implications for practice concern how human rights may be protected within and for systems of high performance production.

scholarly journals Transformative Governance through Freedom of Choices in a South Asian Megacity: A Critical Review

2012 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Saleh Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Transitional Economies ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Developing Regions

Countries in the developing regions or transitional economies are now experiencing an unprecedented pace of urbanization. This phenomenal event involves far more complex system dynamics of human security and livelihoods than any times before. This paper is aimed to highlight these issues from human dimensions where peoples’ choices and values are properly addressed and can value in sociopolitical arena. The philosophical inputs have been taken from the remarkable works of Nobel Laureate Economist Amartya Sen. This paper explores how Sen’s ideas on freedom of choice and capability approach can improve the urban governance in cities like Dhaka, which is an example of hyper urbanization in low income developing regions and experiencing severe poverty and exclusion.

Well-Being, Adaptation and Human Limitations*

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 83-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mozaffar Qizilbash
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Reliable Basis ◽  
The Capability Approach

Philosophical accounts of human well-being face a number of significant challenges. In this paper, I shall be primarily concerned with one of these. It relates to the possibility, noted by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen amongst others, that people’s desires and attitudes are malleable and can ‘adapt’ in various ways to the straitened circumstances in which they live. If attitudes or desires adapt in this way it can be argued that the relevant desires or attitudes fail to provide a reliable basis for evaluating well-being. This is, what I shall call the ‘adaptation problem’. Nussbaum and Sen have—in different ways used this argument to motivate their versions of the ‘capability approach’. However, questions remain about the implications of adaptation for philosophical accounts of well-being.

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