How are Part-Time Laboring International Students Incorporated into Host Labor Markets after Graduation? The Case of South and Southeast Asians in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Yusuke Mazumi
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Part Time

scholarly journals Impact of Part Time Work on the Academic Performance of International Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ershad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
International Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Auckland Region ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Part Time Work

The study analyses the impact of part time work on academic performance of international students while they study. In doing so, the study has conducted a survey among international students who were studying at different tertiary institutes in Auckland region. The study found that there are positive as well as negative impacts on the students’ academic performance while they study as well as work. The study opines that whether the impact would be positive or negative depends on time management between work and study. Findings of the study may be of interest for policy makers, educationists, and researchers.

scholarly journals Robots, labor markets, and universal basic income

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Cabrales ◽  
Penélope Hernández ◽  
Angel Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Effort Level ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Socioeconomic Issues ◽  
Replacement Decisions ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractAutomation is a big concern in modern societies in view of its widespread impact on many socioeconomic issues including income, jobs, and productivity. While previous studies have concentrated on determining the effects on jobs and salaries, our aim is to understand how automation affects productivity, and how some policies, such as taxes on robots or universal basic income, moderate or aggravate those effects. To this end, we have designed an experiment where workers make productive effort decisions, and managers can choose between workers and robots to do these tasks. In our baseline treatment, we measure the effort made by workers who may be replaced by robots, and also elicit firm replacement decisions. Subsequently, we carry out treatments in which workers have a universal basic income of about a fifth of the workers’ median wages, or where there is a tax levy on firms who replace workers by robots. We complete the picture of the impact of automation by looking into the coexistence of workers and robots with part-time jobs. We find that the threat of a robot substitution does not affect the amount of effort exerted by workers. Also, neither universal basic income nor a tax on robots decrease workers’ effort. We observe that the robot substitution tax reduces the probability of worker substitution. Finally, workers that benefit from managerial decisions to not substitute them by more productive robots do not increase their effort level. Our conclusions shed light on the interplay of policy and workers behavior under pervasive automation.

scholarly journals ‘You Need to Know Someone Who Knows Someone’: International Students’ Job Search Experiences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolle Alho
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
International Students ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
International Student ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Institutional Contexts

The article analyzes how 31 international students (IS) entered the Finnish labor market as they graduated from Finnish universities. Despite a growing interest in international student migration (ISM), there are few studies that analyze the firsthand experiences of IS as they seek to enter the receiving-country labor markets as they graduate. This article contributes to the topic by showing how the interviewees of this study managed to enter the receiving-country labor markets, which are embedded in national, cultural, and institutional contexts that require context-bound knowledge of particular recruitment patterns.The contribution of the article lies in (1) providing new insights on an understudied topic: IS’ experiences of finding jobs in the country of graduation, and, in (2) constructing a theoretical framework for analyzing IS’ job search in the countries ofgraduation. More broadly, the article contributes to the studies on highly educated migrants’ labor market integration by shedding light on the experiences in a Nordic setting.

Study-work-life balance: Challenges for international students

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-233
Author(s):  
Martin Lukas Mahler
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Part Time

The purpose of this article is to explore to what extent international students may be affected by a lack of study/work-life balance or study-work-life balance amongst those who study (full-time) and work part-time. International students tend to face more pressures due to usually lacking a support network, at least for some time once arriving in the host country. Such pressures may be financial or social and may be due to a lack of awareness of host country norms and regulations or due to language barriers. An online survey informed by work-life balance theory was completed by 42 international students. The findings from the analysis of responses were that while most respondents were satisfied with their study-work-life balance, some although managing overall, faced pressures. A key finding was that the students managed due to the student visa condition restricting employment to a maximum of twenty hours per week. This seems to have helped respondents to focus more time on their studies, however, may add to financial pressures or put international students at a disadvantage over their domestic peers in terms of gaining work experience. Further, findings have uncovered that although working while studying provides additional pressures, it creates benefits through the ability to build a support network.

Reevaluating the German labor market miracle

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-179
Author(s):  
Michael C. Burda ◽  
Stefanie Seele
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Hartz Iv ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Supply Shock ◽  
Wage Moderation ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Search And Matching Model

AbstractFrom 2003 to 2018, employment in Germany increased by 7.3 million, or by 19.3 % – growth not observed since unification. This “labor market miracle” was marked by a persistent and significant expansion of both part-time and low-wage jobs and a deterioration in pay for these jobs, while total hours hardly increased; overall wage growth returned only after 2011. These developments followed in the wake of the landmark Hartz reforms (2003–2005). A modified framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) predicts negative correlation of wages with both relative employment and participation across cells in the period following these reforms. In contrast, wage moderation alone should generate positive association of wages and participation. Our findings are most consistent with a persistent, positive labor supply shock at given working-age population in a cleared labor market. An alternative perspective of labor markets, the search and matching model, also points to the Hartz IV reforms as the central driver of the German labor market miracle.

scholarly journals Insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, anxiety, depression and socioeconomic status among customer service employees in Canada

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
FA Etindele Sosso
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
International Students ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness ◽  
Daytime Sleepiness ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Anxiety Depression

ABSTRACTObjectivesThe present study alerts on the potential effect of working full time in a call center as a risk factor for neuropsychiatric illnesses. It is the first study investigating deeply presence of anxiety, depression, insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness among a large population of customer service employees. It has 3 specifics goals which were (1) document presence of sleep disorders among customer service advisors (2) document presence of anxiety and depression in this population (3) determine the influence of the socioeconomic status, duration in position and full time or part-time shift on the diseases above.FindingsIt was found that the majority of people working in customer service are undergraduate students or at a secondary/high school degree. They worked full time, are single and have reported at least two of the neuropsychiatric disorders assessed in the present study. Among customer service advisors enrolled in this study, all neuropsychiatric disorders investigated were present and significantly higher for those working full time. Perceived socioeconomic status (pSES) was almost similar for full time and part time workers with a mean score of 4.8 on the MacArthur scale of subjective social status. Results revealed that duration in position was an excellent predictor of insomnia, sleepiness and anxiety (respectively with R2=91,83%, R2=81,23% and R2=87,46%) but a moderate predictor of depression (R2=69,14%). The pSES was a moderate predictor of sleep disorders (respectively R2=62,04% for insomnia and R2=53,62% for sleepiness) but had a strong association with anxiety and depression (R2=82,95% for anxiety and R2=89,77% for depression). It was found that insomnia and anxiety are more prevalent for immigrants and international students compared to Canadians, while depression was similarly higher for Canadian and immigrants compared to international students. It was found that sleepiness has the same trend in the three subgroups.ConclusionCustomer service employees are exposed to a continuous stimulation of their cognitive functions in addition to different stressors which can progressively and silently damage the nervous system. Investigations on mental and physical health of customer service advisors are worthy of interest, and understanding how their work, their rotating shifts and their socioeconomic status influence their resilience and their performance at work; may help comprehension of similar health issues emerging in similar populations with similar occupations.

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