Educational mismatch in recent university graduates. The role of labour mobility

Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore the career development and workplace learning of Finnish multiple jobholders who are university graduates. Design/methodology/approach 45 in-depth interviews were conducted with graduate multiple jobholders in Finland. The transcripts were analyzed by abductive content analysis using the Chaos Theory of Careers. Research participants were recruited via social media, invitations, snowball sampling and through networks. Findings Meaningful work was the attractor, the central factor in the decision to be a multiple jobholder. Interviewees attempted to adjust to future changes through their learning and choice of jobs and reported on their role as creators of future working life. Interviewees regarded organizing of their work and timetable as a core competency with their identity closely linked to their competencies and networks. Research limitations/implications The author acknowledges that the national context of Finland is unusually favorable to those becoming multiple job holders. Practical implications The identification of meaningful work as the key attractor, the intention to adapt to future contexts and the specifying of organization of work and timetabling as core competencies in multiple jobholding have clear practical implications at the national, local, organizational and individual levels. Originality/value Little has previously been known of the role of multiple jobholding as a facilitator in skill development and limited knowledge of how the various jobs combine into one portfolio. Previous studies have focused on individuals who take a second job to earn more money. Elite multiple jobholding has attracted little research attention yet seems to have an important role in achieving changes in society.

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Employees’ Weekend Activities and Psychological Well-Being via Job Stress: A Moderated Mediation Role of Recovery Experience

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17051642 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 1642 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jae-Geum Jeong ◽

Seung-Wan Kang ◽

Suk Bong Choi

Keyword(s):

Job Stress ◽

Well Being ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

University Graduates ◽

Manufacturing Companies ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Daily Work ◽

Recovery Experiences ◽

The Relationship

An employee’s off-work activities are known to contribute positively to recovering their energy levels depleted by daily work. Despite this view and understanding, the effect of employees’ weekend activities on their psychological well-being has not attracted sufficient research interest. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between employees’ weekend activities and their psychological well-being, and the mediating role of job stress in the above relationship. We also investigated the moderating role of the recovery experiences in the relationship between employees’ weekend activities and job stress. Furthermore, we examined the moderated mediating effect of recovery experiences on the relationship among employees’ weekend activity, job stress, and psychological well-being. The survey data was obtained from 294 employees working in 15 manufacturing companies in South Korea. The participants were 71.1% men and 28.9% women, 49.7% were university graduates, followed by 26.2% college graduates, 12.6% high school graduates, 10.2% post-graduates, and 1.4% Ph.D. holders. In terms of age composition, 50% participants were in their thirties, followed by 19.7% in their forties. The empirical analysis revealed that weekend activities are positively associated with employees’ psychological well-being. Moreover, job stress was found to mediate the relationship between weekend activities and psychological well-being. We also found that the recovery experiences positively moderated the relationship between weekend activities and job stress. Further, the study revealed that the higher the level of recovery experience, the greater the effect of weekend activities on psychological well-being affected by job stress. The paper also discusses the theoretical and practical implications of the study.

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Fearing Such a Lady: University Expansion, Underemployment, and the Hypergamy Ideal in Kampala, Uganda

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x19886895 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (8) ◽

pp. 1161-1187

Author(s):

Margaret Frye ◽

Daniela R. Urbina

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Family Formation ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

University Graduates ◽

Formation Processes ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Highly Educated ◽

Relationship Norms ◽

University Expansion

In Uganda, the cultural norm of hypergamy, which dictates that husbands should have higher economic and social status than wives, is pervasive and influential. Yet hypergamy has recently been challenged by women’s gains in education relative to men and by an unemployment crisis leaving educated young men unable to find steady work. Using interviews with recent university graduates in Kampala, we investigate how highly educated young adults navigate frictions between the hypergamy ideal and these recent transformations in gendered status. Some women reduce the salience of hypergamy by preventing their relationships from becoming serious, while other women intentionally perform the role of submissive housewife while preserving their autonomy. Men reframe their romantic circumstances to underplay their inability to achieve economic hypergamy, portraying educated women as undesirable and characterizing their partners as nonmaterialistic. These findings reveal how demographic and economic changes reconfigure relationship norms, gendered power dynamics, and family formation processes.

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Young and at risk? Consequences of job insecurity for mental health and satisfaction among labor market entrants with different levels of education

Economic and Industrial Democracy ◽

10.1177/0143831x17731609 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 562-585 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Katharina Klug

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Labor Market ◽

Job Insecurity ◽

Temporary Employment ◽

University Graduates ◽

Young Workers ◽

Weak Evidence ◽

Vocational Qualifications ◽

University Degree

Young workers are often temporarily employed and thus likely to experience job insecurity. This study investigates associations of objective job insecurity (i.e., temporary employment) and subjectively perceived job insecurity with mental health, job satisfaction and life satisfaction among young workers, testing the moderating role of education. The longitudinal analysis based on 1522 labor market entrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel revealed that subjective job insecurity was associated with decreased mental health and lower satisfaction, whereas objective job insecurity was not. Three levels of education were differentiated: university degree, vocational training and low-qualified. There was weak evidence that those with vocational qualifications were more vulnerable to subjective job insecurity than either the low-qualified or university graduates. The results suggest that irrespective of education, detrimental consequences of subjective job insecurity emerge early in the career. Access to secure employment should be improved for young workers to prevent early dissatisfaction and impairment of their mental health.

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Unemployment outflows: the relevance of gender and marital status in Italy and Spain

International Journal of Manpower ◽

10.1108/ijm-06-2012-0086 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (5) ◽

pp. 594-612 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Chiara Mussida ◽

Enrico Fabrizi

Keyword(s):

Marital Status ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Geographical Area ◽

International Comparisons ◽

Panel Survey ◽

Labour Mobility ◽

Content Type ◽

Status Differences ◽

Shed Light

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on transitions from the state of unemployment to that of employment and of inactivity in Italy and Spain. Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper investigates the determinants of unemployment outflows in these two Mediterranean labour markets. Then, the paper examines discrepancies and similarities between specific outflow determinants, especially the interactions between gender and marital status, by comparing results obtained across countries. Findings – The findings of the paper suggest that gender and marital status influence the probability of unemployment outflows in both countries, although not in the same way, especially with reference to marital status. Discrepancies also emerge in relation to the role of geographical area of residence. Originality/value – International comparisons of unemployment outflows are rather new in the literature, and as far as we know none have been performed using European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data. Further, although studies quite often examine the issue of gender-related labour mobility using the European Community Household Panel survey that took place in the 1990s (Arulampalam et al., 2007; Garcia Pérez and Rebollo Sanz, 2005; Theodossiou and Zangelidis, 2009), one of the main contributions of this paper is that it provides a systematic examination of the issue, considering the influence of gender and marital status differences on patterns of unemployment outflows to employment and inactivity.

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دور الإرشاد الوظيفي في دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل

مجلة كلية فلسطين التقنية للأبحاث والدراسات ◽

10.47641/jrs.2018-5-1.01 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-40

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Career Counseling ◽

English Language ◽

Training Programs ◽

Counseling Services ◽

University Graduates ◽

Study Population ◽

Palestinian Universities ◽

Sample Method

تهدف الدراسة الحالية إلى التعرف على دور الإرشاد الوظيفي في دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل، من خلال دراسة حالة مركز الإرشاد الوظيفي التابع للكلية الجامعية للعلوم التطبيقية بغزة، وتمثل مجتمع الدراسة في المستفيدين من خدمات المركز والمشاركين في(البرامج التدريبية، وورش العمل الإرشادية، وأيام التوظيف، ومعارض مشاريع الخريجين الإبداعية(، والبالغ عددهم (4423) مستفيد، وتم استخدام طريقة العينة العشوائية حيث بلغ عدد الاستبانات الموزعة (400) استبانة على مجتمع الدراسة، وكان عدد الاستبانات المستردة (356) استبانة بنسبة (89%)، واستخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي التحليلي والاستبانة كأداة للدراسة، وكذلك برنامج (SPSS) الإحصائي لتحليل البيانات واختبار صحة الفرضيات وللإجابة عن تساؤلات الدراسة. أظهرت نتائج الدراسة وجود علاقة بين الإرشاد الوظيفي والمتمثل بالخدمات المقدمة للخريجين من حيث (البرامج التدريبية، وورش العمل الإرشادية، وأيام التوظيف، ومعارض مشاريع الخريجين الإبداعية) وبين دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل، بالإضافة لوجود أثر للإرشاد الوظيفي في دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل، وقد بينت نتائج الدراسة أن خدمات الإرشاد الوظيفي المؤثرة على المتغير التابع “دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل” هي (البرامج التدريبية، وأيام التوظيف، ومعارض مشاريع الخريجين الإبداعية)، أما ورش العمل الإرشادية فقد تبين أنّ تأثيرها ضعيف. وفي ضوء تلك النتائج خلصت الدراسة إلى عدة توصيات أهمها ضرورة تطوير مركز الإرشاد الوظيفي للخدمات المقدمة للخريجين بما يراعي الاحتياجات الفعلية لهم، ويساهم في رفع كفاءتهم وتعزيز فرص منافستهم في سوق العمل، وخاصة البرامج التدريبية بمجال المهارات الحاسوبية ومهارات اللغة الإنجليزية، وورش العمل الإرشادية المختصة بمجال رسم المسار المهني للخريجين. This study aimed at identifying the role of career counseling in the integration of Palestinian university graduates in the labor market. The Job Advisory Center at University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza has been taken as a case study. The study population included the beneficiaries of the services offered by the Center, and participants in its training programs, counseling workshops, recruitment days, and graduation projects exhibits. Those were 4423 participants. The study used the random sample method. The number of questionnaires distributed was 400 questionnaire forms. The number of questionnaires retrieved was356, with a return rate of 89%. The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach, and the questionnaire as a tool. The study used SPSS program for statistical data analysis and hypotheses testing, and to answer the questions of the study. The results of the study showed that there is a relationship between career counseling through the services offered to graduates in terms of training programs, counseling workshops, recruitment days, and creative graduation projects exhibits, and the integration of graduates of Palestinian universities into the labor market. There is also an impact of career counseling and the integration of graduates of Palestinian universities into the labor market. Results of the study also showed that the career counseling services that influence the dependent variable of “integration of graduates of Palestinian universities in the labor market” are training programs, recruitment days and exhibitions of creative graduates’ projects. The study found that there is an insignificant role of the counseling workshops in this regard. In light of these results, the study reached a set of recommendations. Most importantly, the study recommends the development of the services offered by the Job Advisory center to take into consideration the actual needs of graduates, and contribute to raising their competency and improving their chances of competition in the labor market. Development of training programs in computer skills and English language skills and counseling workshops in the field of career track construction are more essential in this regard.

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