scholarly journals Where do you come from, where do you go? Assessing skills gaps and labour market outcomes for young adults with different immigration backgrounds

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 102466
Author(s):  
Alison Cathles ◽  
Dongshu Ou ◽  
Simone Sasso ◽  
Mary Setrana ◽  
Tom van Veen
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes

scholarly journals Psychosocial Characteristics and Successful Labour Market Attachment Among Young Adults: The Internalization of Individual Inadequacy as Explanations for Failures within the Labour Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
Micheal L Shier ◽  
John R Graham ◽  
Marilyn Eisenstat
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Psychosocial Characteristics ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes

This qualitative research sought to better understand how young adults perceived factors leading to labour market success. Respondents (n=36) identified two psychosocial characteristics that contributed to their successful labour market attachment: 1) personal behaviours can contribute to labour market outcomes; and 2) individual inadequacies contribute to unsuccessful labour market attachment. The internalization of individual inadequacies is only enhanced by labour market policy strategies that seek primarily to aid in the development of basic skills (such as computer use and literacy), when, due to labour market shifts, government programs and policies should be focusing instead on the development of professional and technical level skills (such as field specific knowledge and abilities to carry out a particular employment role). Implications for programs and policies aimed at supporting young adult employment are discussed.

The youth labour market: From education to work before and after the global financial crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Watson
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Youth Labour Market ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This article examines labour market outcomes for teenagers and young adults before and after the global financial crisis. Using labour market activity calendar data, I analyse two cohorts of young people – a pre-global financial crisis cohort and a post-global financial crisis cohort – over the period from 2001 to 2016. A life course approach (sequence analysis) is used to track education-to-work transitions over this period. Optimal matching methods and cluster analysis are used to subdivide the cohorts into three distinctive categories. These form the basis for further analysis, including regression modelling. The key issue examined is whether labour market outcomes differed between these two cohorts, and, by extension, between the periods before and after the global financial crisis. In addition, the categorisation is used to examine issues of long-term marginalisation in the labour market. The main labour market outcomes analysed were gaining employment and conditions of employment, specifically underemployment and casualisation. The article concludes that gaining employment significantly deteriorated over this period. Furthermore, while the comparison of global financial crisis cohorts showed no significant differences when it came to underemployment and casualisation, this partly reflected the fact that both of these were already very high among this population of teenagers and young adults.

Exploring gender digital divide and its effect on women's labour market outcomes in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso ◽  
Jimi Adesina ◽  
Ololade G. Adewole
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
Variable Approach ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes

Technology plays a significant role in bridging gender gap in labour market outcomes. This paper investigates gender differential in broadband Internet usage and its effects on women‘s labour market participation. Employing an instrumental variable approach, findings suggest that exogenously determined high-speed broadband internet usage leads to increases of about 14.1 and 10.6 percentage points in labour market participation for single women and married women with some level of education, respectively. Moreover, further analyses suggest that married women are generally less likely to use the Internet to search for job opportunities and this could partly explains their low labour market participation rate. The findings suggest that more policy effort is required to bridge gender differentials in digital technologies and employment opportunities in South Africa.

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